I have this Doughboy statue of my father’s.

I don’t really know why he had it because I don’t think he really served in the military.

He told me that he had worked on the Manhattan Project but not developing atomic weapons. His work was on the biological effects of radiation. We often had radioactive samples in heavy little lead containers in his basement lab, but I think they were usually isotopes used to trace chemicals through the bodies of rats, dogs, etc.