After the war he would graduate from
Tulane in 1924. While on his way to China, he happened to
be standing by the Mississippi River looking at a banana
boat, a man came up to him, "Admiring my boat?" "Your
boat?" Paul exclaimed "Yes Sir, that one and that
one." Sticking his hand out he said, "I'm Sam Zemurray,
CEO of United Fruit." Mr. Sam, as they would call him,
made Paul an offer to go to Honduras, Paul accepted and eventually
spent many years there.
At one point, Dad ran a brewery in Honduras. He and his Brew
Master, a Mr. Don Lorenzo who also fought in WW1 but on
the German side, would talk of their experiences on the
front. They would be heard saying, "You're sure you
were on this hill, at 3 PM at this position with a machine
gun shooting at the Americans, hell you're the one who
shot me!" Paul would insist.
Paul Jr relates that his Dad returned to the states, joined
the Army Air Corp, and became a pilot retiring in 1939 as
a Major. Paul J Holsen died in 1994.
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