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Sgt Robert M. Miller graduated from high school.

He enlisted in Toledo, Ohio on 23 November 1943 and trained at Fort Hayes and Fort McClellon.

Per his daughter: "My father wanted to become a writer of fiction and/or a journalist. During his freshman year of high school, he boarded with the owner and publisher of the Geneva Herald newspaper. When my father wasn't at school, he worked for the paper.
On June 9, 1940, my father, three months short of 27, married my 18 year old mother at the Geneva Methodist church. Shortly after their wedding, they moved to Ohio where my father worked as a reporter and as a cartoonist for a newspaper. In 1941, he bought the newspaper and was the editor, the publisher, main writer, and cartoonist.
By 1941, it seemed he would be called up for active duty and my mother wanted to be near friends and family. So, at the end of 1941, they moved back to Geneva, Indiana. I was born in July 1943 and when I was four months old, my father entered the Army. He came home for ten days in May 1944 before being shipped to Europe. He was wounded somewhere in Europe and was sent to a hospital in England. When he recovered, my father rejoined his unit and was badly wounded in Germany. He died a short time later and left behind a 23 year old widow and a 20 month old daughter.
I can remember sitting on my porch step. I would see Tommy sitting on his porch step next door. Every week day his dad would come home and pick him up and carry him into their house. I prayed for my dad to come back. I wished on stars. I tried magic. Finally, one day I realized my dad was never going to pick me up, to kiss me good night, to read me a story."