Reaserching is so much harder then i really thought it would be. I have always thought, hay the internet every thing you want to find is there. so I have learned that is not exactly to be the case. I have stared out looking for my uncle, Pfc. Shaposka,Steve. He was my Father's older brother. I guess you can say I felt compelled to start doing research on my uncle, when I and my children moved to NC, to be with my husband, who is an 82nd Paratrooper. Granted they were no were near the same unit, but both had and does serve as an 82nd Paratrooper. When I started initially doing research on my uncle, I had actually been doing family tree history research. I knew as a kid from what my father told me growing up, about my uncle being in the WWII. And how he was killed during the "BATTLE OF THE BULDGE". And as I was researching more into my family tree, every time I searched from the last name "Shaposka" there would always pull up a page from "Henri-Chapelle American Cemitary, Belgium", this really got me curious in finding out more about Pfc. Shaposka,Steve. I now have several documents, including a certificate from a friend who awsomly adopted my uncle's grave. The certificate is from the "Henri-Chapelle Cemetery". How wonderful it was of Frenk to send that to me. I opened up the envelope that Frenk sent to me, and was so delighted, I teared up, with joy. Every now and again, Frenk sends me photo's when he goes to the "Henri-Chapelle Cemetery", Were he lays flower's down, and the only exsiting photo that we know of exsist of my uncle Steve.
I have recently met a few more WWII friends, who's father's or cousin's were in WWII. and buried in the same cemetery. I talk to them online often, as it gives me geat joy, knowing that there are other family member's of WWII soldier's who are wanting to talk and discuss and help other's to find what they need to keep those who fought for Freedoms alive. As I often hear, "They may have fallen, but they will never be forgoten".