Serving proudly since 1873 as the beautiful Nebraska Panhandle's first newspaper
Serving proudly since 1873 as the beautiful Nebraska Panhandle's first newspaper
Paul F. Sheaman
Master Sergeant
U.S. Army
1943-1946
1950-1951
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in The Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Sidney, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.
Paul Sheaman got quite an introduction to the real world as seen by the U.S. Army.
Here's a young man from just west of small-town Wyoming, fresh out of high school, and now, recently contacted by the Selective Service System.
"Greetings ..."
The letter gave the instructions of what, where, when and how. The...
Reader Comments(1)
JoelDavis writes:
Around 2008 I found a photo in my late dad's things of an army man, signed Always Yours, Paul Sheaman, Lance Creek, Wyoming. Who was he? I couldn't find Paul, but I wrote all 5 Sheamans in Wyoming with the pic. A few weeks later the phone rang-- it was Paul, my note sent him by a few relatives. It seems he knew my dad, an army dentist on Trinidad, not as dentist, but as band leader (his avocation, Paul hired them for his unit's dances). Solved! We corresponded for a few years thereafter.
11/13/2022, 1:52 pm