Robert Crayhon

Of all the complaints I can come up with about my life in America, it pales in comparison to what horrors my grandfather must have faced as a first lieutenant in the Austrian Cavalry in World War I. This short clip from the BBC Motion Gallery makes one shudder to think of what kind of hand-to-hand combat these men must have endured in battle. My grandfather, I was told, had five horses shot out from under him during the course of the war. I never spoke to him about it. I can only imagine it was the last thing he would ever want to talk about again, and I must have felt that.  He came to America in 1920, and was a very loved man by all who knew him.  I miss him very much to this day, and if I possess any good qualities, it is because I have spent most of my life trying to be like him as much as possible. Here is another clip of the Austrian Cavalry racing off to where–war?