On this episode of Our American Stories, before Lee Habeeb was born, his family joined the long list of American families forever changed by World War II. One afternoon in 1944, two Army officers arrived at his mother’s apartment building with news that her brother John had been killed overseas.
Lee shares how that loss stayed with his family for generations and how he remembers his fallen uncle every Memorial Day.
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