John,

I've attached a picture of Mom and Dad that was just taken at Christmas.

I can assure you, this is other 'John Voglewede' you could spend hours visiting with. He is a great guy. Still knows everyone in Decatur whenever he goes back. I had occasion for just he and I to go down to Decatur a couple of years ago to watch Matt's (Phil's younger brother) last HS basketball game. We sat in a restaurant and he didn't get a bite in. People within a 10-15 yr. range of him kept coming up to him to say, 'Hello Big John!' Most of them he hadn't seen since he left Indiana over 40 years earlier. His command of his memory from his days in Indiana growing up with all his brothers and sisters is amazing. They are so incredibly close, all of them. And, like the others of his generation, he's now starting to open up about his time in WWII. He was in the Battle of the Bulge, in charge of a mortar group, and froze three toes off on his left foot in the campaign. He still keeps in touch (starting a couple years ago) with his buddies in his platoon. I took him to meet one of them near Chicago the summer before last. (Big Red 1 museum). After ten minutes they picked up as if it were yesterday ("... why were you sleeping that time I was getting branches to cover our foxhole..?" "I was tired, it had been a long day..." What a gift my two brothers and I felt being in their presence taking this all in.

Take care - hope the new year is off to a good start.

Dave