John McDonald doesn't remember much about his father, James Malachai McDonald, who was 79 in 1926 when John was born. He was his father's 16th and final child. His father died five years later.
His mother, Ida Lucinda was 43 when he was born. She was very attractive and had been married before she married his father, but that man had run off and she was hunting for a pension for financial security.
John remembers vaguely of sitting on his father's lap at church and playing with his watch. "I remember he got a whip on me a couple days before he died."
His father never talked much about the war.
A "Real Son." --Old B-Runner
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