Career
The four original liberators were Captain Frederic Keffer, Technology Sergeant Herbert Gottschalk, Sergeant
Harry Ward and Hoyt, a private first class.
He said he"s even followed blogs of Holocaust deniers after his father"s death. "Some of the dissent was most interesting", he said.
"I"m not saying my dad was a hero to every person in the world, but I"m saying he certainly had a heroic approach and outlook, and definitely went above and beyond a person"s call of duty to understand the atrocities of war", James son explained after his father"s death. "They say all"s fair in love and war.
You were scheduled to be obliterated.
And that"s not Oklahoma. That"s not what democracy and freedom is all about."
His father suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder up until the day he died. He only began getting help in the 1990s. "His whole life, he had fitful dreams", John Hoyt said.