Harold Welch

About Harold Welch...

We were together at the "Infantry Kasern", Augsburg, Ger.. I married my high school sweetheart in 59', at the Municiple Bldg. in down town Augsburg. After leaving Ger. I went to N.D. to help my uncle with his 2000 Acers of ranch land. Shortly after the coldest winter in 75 yrs., we left & went to Minn./So.St.Paul, while there I hooked up with Wayne Peters. He went by "Pete" when he & I served with the 24th Med. Bn., Infantry Kasern, Ger. (5 blocks from downtown Augsburg. Wayne, his wife, Tony-an Armenian-, my new wife "Shirley" & my self. We traveled through Austria, Switzerland, France, & Spain together. Camping out the whole time. Afterwards, I went to N.D./Minn./Ohio-ran a 98 bed Nursing Home at Windsor/ILL./NE-Lincoln. The time is 61' [The Berlin Crisis], I reenlisted into the U.S. Army hoping for a deployment to Germany. Instead, I was reassigned to the 947th Med. Co./Fort Carson, Colo.. There were 75 other RA's who also were sent to the 947th. The "Old Man",a Col. & our 1st Sgt., were the only persons who had had active service. The remainder of the active medics, were my self along with the other guys, all of us had been in Ger.. The 947th was a National Guard company,