10 November 2011  After They Served  Thomas Craft in Germany   
 Tomorrow is Veterans' Day, a day in which we remember and give
thanks to the men and women who served in our nation's armed
forces. But their military career wasn't the extent of their
lives, though it often impacted it dramatically.       My
Pawpaw, Thomas Craft, left his family behind when he was drafted
into World War II.  His leaving was a hardship for his wife and
two young daughters. They were a family of farmers, either
working as sharecroppers or tenant farmers. The cotton crop, the
family's main source of income, came in while Thomas was in
Europe. Without Thomas there to lead the family harvest, the
crop was stollen.  AS_craft_thomas3     Thomas came back home
and worked until he could buy the land the family farmed.
However, he gave up farming only a few years later. He moved the
family from Elbert County, Georgia to DeKalb County, Georgia. He
soon began to work at Atlantic Steel, a mill in Atlanta. He
would work there for more than