Description

Personality

Theme Song: Airborne Medley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8agr4iStbBM All of them apply, but particularly the second song.
Occupation: Corpral in the US Army, 101st Airborne Division
Hobbies: Hunting, Fishing, Camping, Shooting, just about anything in the outdoors.

Edward used to be a very kind and outgoing young man, always smiling and joking, but war has changed him. He lost a lot of friends and did some really horrible things that he won't tell anyone about. He's become closed off, angry, and moody. He rarely smiles anymore, and the rare occasions that he does, it's not the bright and cheery one that used to light up a room. He doesn't like strangers or replacements, and is very harsh to people he doesn't know. The kind farmboy from Idaho has been lost, replaced by a hardened, bitter and cynical soldier. But maybe the farmboy that everyone loved could be found again if he found the right person to thaw him out.

History

Edward was born and raised on a small farm in Idaho. He grew up through the Depression and never had a lot, but the family was always able to make ends meet in the end. He spent most of his childhood outdoors. If he wasn't at school or helping on the farm, chances were he was out hunting, fishing, or just exploring the woods and mountains around our farm. He graduated High School in '42 and immediately volunteered to join the army rather than wait to be drafted. He signed up for the Airborne as soon as he heard about and never regretted it. He saw action on D-Day, in Market-Garden, and around Bastogne, was wounded three times, and was awarded both the bronze and silver star. War changed Edward though. He became harder and almost unfeeling. He had seen most of his friends get killed or severly wounded and has killed more Germans than he wants to think about, some of them weren't even adults. He eventually became closed off to all but the few remaining original members of his company, and won't let himself grow close to anyone for fear of losing them.

Ed never really had much of a love life. It wasn't that he didn't like girls or that he didn't like them. He had plenty of friends that were girls and he even dated a few of them. He just didn't want to get into a serious relationship, feeling that would tie him down and limit his independence. He kind of regretted not having a girl back home to write to when he joined the service, but he got over it. It meant that there was nobody back home that would be hurt much when he bought it. By the end of the war, he was convinced that there was no way a girl to love a guy like him. One evening, near the end of the War, Edward was out an patrol. He never came back. His parents got the notice that he was missing in action on VE Day. No one ever knew what happened to him.