FAMILY & FRIEND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
Charles Pappy Schuch - continued
From his re-enlistment and assignment at Ft. Slocum, NY in Mar, 1915, as a cook until his honorable discharge in 1920, Pappy fed and cared for thousands of the Doughboys who were destined for the front lines and an uncertain future.
But God was kinder to Pappy. He remained stateside, the Great War came to an end and he was spared the misery and haunting memories of being on the front lines. Nonetheless, he never forgot the friends he made at the Ft. Slocum processing center and often thought about how many of them had perished.
Little did he or his generation know that this war would not end all wars. Neither did he know that 25 years later the infant son sitting in his lap on a New York rooftop in 1919 would emerge a hero from the same Hell he was spared.
