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Travis tells WWII story Shares photograph of Heartbreak Ridge By GINA KINSLOWGlasgow Daily Times “As a young man just out of high school, he was the best soldier that I was ever around,” Pace said, adding Travis went on to prove what a good soldier he could be by attending officer’s training school and later retiring from the National Guard as commander of an artillery unit with the rank of lieutenant colonel. “He was a good soldier.”
After his tour of duty during the Korean War, Travis returned to Glasgow as a second lieutenant and set out to reorganize Battery A of the National Guard’s 1/623rd FA in 1953. He was 21. A year later, he attended artillery school at Fort Sill, Okla. because “I didn’t have anything else to do.” “I went out there for the first part of 1954, and in the fall of 1954 I enrolled in the University of Kentucky Law School,” he said. He wanted to go to law school because he believed it would help him land his dream job — a position as an agent with the FBI. But he didn’t become an FBI agent. Instead, he got married. “And that changes everything,” he said with a smile. “It’s not the same when you’re in there married and being single like I was earlier. It’s too hard on families. You move too much and there are too many things going on.” After law school, Travis returned to the National Guard in 1957. In 1958, he enlisted in the Army as a judge advocate and was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell. A judge advocate is responsible for trying court marshals. “They prosecute them and they defend them and they advise the command they are with on legal matters,” he said. “Like I used to advise the commanding general of the 101st on making a loan to build a bowling alley at Fort Campbell.” Travis was at Fort Campbell for eight months before he decided to end his military career. “I decided there wasn’t any future in it,” he said. “The peace time in the Army is so different from war time. In war time, it’s hustle and bustle, getting ready to go. You’re going off to war. In peace time, it’s kind of boring to tell you the truth. So, I decided to come back and practice law here.” On hand to hear her dad speak was Travis’ daughter, Holly. “I never get tired of listening to him,” she said. “It’s just a pleasure to listen to him and to witness other people listening to him and getting as much out of as I do. I learn something new about my father every time I hear him speak.” While Travis was the guest speaker, he, Pace and other area veterans who fought during World War II, Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars were recognized during the DAR meeting. 
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