I have been asked a lot recently about the *For Gerry* which is placed on the back cover next to the song Bye Bye Blackbird. Gerry is an amazing man who goes to Jay’s Bistro most Thursdays…

I got to know him before my summer trip to Europe, we sat down and talked about WW2 and how he was serving in the war. He also asked me to find a bar in Heidelberg “Red Ox”

The Red Ox has a rich history and it has been recorded for centuries. If you ever get there you can ask to sign your name in the guest book. All of those signatures are archived and if you ask you can look back into history and see name after name…

Gerry signed his name in the later part of April of 1947. His one request was for me to find his name and take a photo of it…unfortunatly he signed 2 days or so before Marilyn Monroe and his signature is in a museum so we could not get the picture. He was just thankful we tried.