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Father’s wartime letters show heroism and resilience
Sarah Barnhart curates decades of letters from her father Bill Barnhart, a West Chester State College alumnus drafted at 18 who served in Army infantry and medical units in Germany and the North Sea. He later practiced podiatry in Fort Worth, guided sports medicine, helped found the Texas Podiatric Association, and remained tied to basketball through TCU games while recounting wartime life and his daughter’s accident.
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Bill Barnhart
Pennsylvania
Sarah Barnhart
Elizabethtown
West Chester State
Barnhart
Army
Sarah
Texas
Granbury
Annie Barnhart
Texas Christian University
Ohio
Lam
Germany
Saxony
Elbe River
69Th
Elbe
Franklin
Roosevelt
Leipzig
Bach
Martin Luther
Bonn
Beethoven
Europe
West Germany
Berlin
Lamnhart
Dorothy
Buchenwald
North Sea
Bremerhaven
U.S
Forcces
Medical College