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"Please don't allow your country to be swallowed up by Liechtenstein or the Vatican as I don't plan to return. As of now, you are on your own."
Sgt. Joe Toye describes his experiences: "After being hit (my fourth Purple Heart) at Bastogne, I went through a series of operations. The main operation being the amputation of my right leg above the knee. Then, later [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I had two more operations, these were to remove shrapnel from my upper chest cavity—to remove them the surgeon went in through my back.
"I was married Dec. 15, 1945, while still in the hospital at Atlantic City. I was discharged from the Army Feb. 8, 1946."
He was given an 80 percent disability. Before the war he had been a molder in a foundry, but with a wooden leg he couldn't do the work. He found employment in a textile mill in Reading, Pennsylvania, then worked twenty years for Bethlehem Steel as a bit grinder.
He has three sons and a daughter. "I used to take the boys hunting, fishing, but I never carried a gun—I was worried about tripping. This artificial leg, if something stops it [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you're gone [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you know. So I never carried a gun. But I took them out deer hunting and fishing. Every year I went camping in Canada with them."
There have been big improvements in artificial legs since 1946. Toye feels