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Dr. John Kerner
Dr. John Kerner
Life Before
Born as John Kapstein on February 19, 1919 in Portland, Oregon.
Growing in Boston he experienced Anti-Semitism, later on he changed his name to avoid Anti-Semitism.
John Kerner was the president in his class at a medical school in Berkley, Ca. He complained about the exclusion of japanese who were being sent into internment camps.
Service
Kerner joined the army in 1944 serving as a battalion surgeon and a combat medic with the elite 10th Mountain Division and the 35th Infantry Division. He served at various battles across Europe including D-Day at Omaha Beach in Normandy, St. Lo, and Bastogne. Kerner witnessed mass murder at Gardelegen in eastern Germany where concentration camp prisoners were burned to death by the Nazi's during the final weeks of the war. Although fighting for the American side, Kerner and his crew helped out wounded German soldiers.
Life After
Effect
Kerner was in a German city called the lovely german city, that was when words got out that the war was over.
When he arrived home , he was upset knowing how people can go on with their lives while their was a war going on.
Jonn Kerner memories still haunt him, he wish he had worked in the Hospital instead on the field because working in the hospital would have been more effective then getting wounded.