Arthur P Monroy

MY DAD ARTHUR PADILLA WAS BORN TO FERNANDO JOSEPH MONROY & YSABELL PADILLA MONROY. HE & MY MOTHER MET AFTER HE HAD MOVED TO SAN DIEGO AND WAS A SEMI PRO BOXER. THEY MARRIED IN 1929 AND I WAS BORN.  THREE YEARS LATER THEY DIVORCED & DAD WENT TO WORK BUILDING HOOVER DAM IN LAS VEGAS.  HE JOINED THE ARMY WHEN THE WAR BEGAN & WAS ENLISTED AT CAMP FORT LUIS OPISPO LATER TRANSFERRED TO FORT ORD HE WAS IN   CO.E 32ND INFINTRY.  DAD & MY MOM WERE REMARRIED BEFORE  HE & HIS COMPANY LEFT FOR TRAINING IN THE DESERT & LATER SENT TO ATTU ALASKA IN MAY WHERE HE WAS KIA ON ATTU.