STORIES FROM MY FATHER
by Joseph Wunderlich III

Joseph Wunderlich II
10/19/26 to 11/09/08

Under Construction

1930's -- THE GREAT DEPRESSION
• "Parents loose large savings when banks close"
• "My father (Joseph Wunderlich I) works a four-day week to help others stay employed"

1940's -- WORLD WAR II
• "A teenager preparing for war"
• "Father refuses my enlisting as an Airforce officer at age 17"
• "Drafted into the Army on my 18th birthday"
• "One poor American soldier left in the pacific ocean"
• "One poor hungry Japanese soldier"
• "Still have ringing in my ear from exploding mortar that broke my watch"
• "Missionary work with the Headhunters of Borneo"
• "The mayor of Mandoai has a tuxedo and top-hat, but no pants"
• "Saved by penicillin in a Philippine jungle"
• "Fishing with a hand grenade"
• "Sharing a joke with 100 Japanese prisoners"
• "Great structures that take years to build can sadly be destroyed in seconds"
• "The unparalled waste of war"

1940's -- TEXAS
• "Becoming an Engineer at the University of Houston"
• "Surviving a Houston hurricane in a college trailer"
• "Flashbacks of war while finding screens for our college trailer"
• "Founding a chapter of the Neumann Club at the University of Houston"
• "The Texas Air National Guard"
• "Seismic blasting in West Texas to find water"

1950's
• "Leaving Texas to be with my father after my mother dies"
• "Seriously considering Seminary"
• "I begin my 25 year career in Aerospace"

1960's
• "My wife gives birth to four children in less than three years"
• "Helping the US win the space race"
• "Convincing Pentagon Generals that fiber optic glass wires don't break"
• "Father dies in 1968"

1970's
• "Turning down aerospace job in Pasadena to instead keep raising four children in PA"
• "I end my 25 year career in Aerospace"
• "Teaching tough teens at a vocational/Technical high-school"
• "Helping my maverick teenage son(s) through the 1970's"

1980's
• "Teaching calculus and physics in an all-female private school"
• "Teaching physics at Villanova University"
• "My son Joseph III marries Karla in 1988"

1990's
• "My grandson Joseph Wunderlich IV is born in 1997"