Dori: My hero from the Greatest Generation, Phil Sulman, has died – but his stories live on

97-year-old Bellevue World War II veteran Phil Sulman passed away this week.

I learned a long time ago that I’m a very emotional person – and if you’re a listener to The Dori Monson Show, you know that, too.Just minutes before today’s show, I learned that Phil Sulman, 97, – Seattle’s 1943 all-city track champion, humble World War II U.S. Army veteran, and proud Bellevue father and husband – died yesterday.

These days, it’s tough to recognize heroes. And yet it has never been more important, especially when all this stuff is being thrown at us – when people and issues want to tear us down emotionally and spiritually. When I first met Phil, his mind was as sharp as ever. He told my listeners stories about the Battle of the Bulge – the single bloodiest battle fought by the U.S. in WWII. How he stripped off his military dog tags and buried them during a deadly Nazi onslaught because he was Jewish – only to later return to the site days later and retrieve it. Phil talked about surviving 195 straight days of shelling and shooting while on the front lines. He described liberating a Nazi concentration camp.

“Sounds like Phil was in the same places as my father. My father made a deal with God that if he survived the war, he would spend the rest of his life working for peace and he did that.” “OMG Dori! People around me in a traffic jam are wondering why I’m crying. Prayers for the family and thank you for bringing his story to all of us. His story, history.”

“Thank you Dori, for sharing Phil’s story. He has enriched my life. Heaven is welcoming home a true gem of a human. A hero for sure.”

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