Margaret (Schuster) Lerud reflects on life in Union and the loss of her brother during World War II
Margaret’s oldest brother, Melvin, was killed in action in 1944 during a German counterattack on American forces near Carentan, France. She remembers the day the family received the news: “It was in the morning, and our depot agent at the time got a telegram to deliver to us. So he drove over to our …