Kenneth was a paratrooper and had been home at Christmas 1950, on a furlough. All of the living Allen siblings were home for a holiday reunion except for one. There were 14 children in the Allen family, 12 boys and 2 girls. Two of the siblings had died in infancy.
Kenneth had volunteered for overseas duty and first shipped to Tokyo. Then on his 18th birthday he was in Seoul Korea. Two months later Kenneth was killed in action.
Of Kenneth's brothers (one of them is my…
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