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“They end up holding this part of the line for eight days, which is really long in terms of doing a deception, trying to keep up appearances,” Beyer said.
Kim Seale of Dallas will be among the family members attending the ceremony. His father’s work in the Ghost Army came as a surprise to him when — about six months after his father’s death at the age of 84 in 2001 — he spoke to a Ghost Army member who was putting together a reunion.
“I said, ‘What do you mean, Ghost Army?’” Seale said.
“My Dad never talked about it,” Seale said. “He kept the oath.”
He said his father, Oscar Seale, who was a captain, had told him that at one point during the war that he had transitioned from a tank division to serving as a courier. Seale said he now thinks that’s when his father joined the Ghost Army.
“It’s been a 20-plus year journey of learning about the Ghost Army, learning about what my Dad did, learning about what the men did and just being amazed at that story,” he said.
