“If you want something, go get it. It’s not going to come easy. There’s a point where people can stand back and wish for things to happen, or you can go out and get it done, and those are the people that are going to be successful.”
Hotel. Then they would help their customers haul it all back to the train for the return trip. From that small business serving
salesmen, Waldo and Hubert started a moving business and then bought Fults Trucking, a mom-and-pop operation, which gave them the authority to haul liquor from Lincoln and Omaha. From there, they developed an LTL business. By the mid- 1950s, their carrier, Winter Brothers, was moving 10-12 truckloads of freight back
and forth every night between Lincoln and Omaha while also offering moving and bulk storage services.
“Hard workers, both of them,” Bob said.
“They had trucking in their blood. My uncle was a real hands-on type guy, and my dad was kind of the wheeler-dealer type.” The brothers served their customers after
first serving their country. Waldo, the older brother, fought in the infantry in the Battle of the Bulge, the late-war counterattack sprung by the Germans, while Hubert was
a pilot of a B-26 and a lieutenant who flew bombing runs from the Aleutian Islands to Japan in the early days of the war. On his eighth flight, he led an airstrike against a ship-filled harbor. The cloud cover was low and the harbor was filled with ships, and the Americans took a lot of hits. Knowing what would happen if he crashed in Japan, Hubert limped his plane into Russia and ditched it there. The Russians had not declared war with Japan and did not want Japan to know they were harboring Americans, so Hubert spent much of the rest of the war as a prisoner. He was not mistreated, but he was restricted and unable to go home. His wife, MaryJo, spent a year not knowing if he were still alive. “Both my dad and my uncle hardly ever
talked about it,” Bob said. “We never really knew what they did until the end, they started talking about it again, and it was just amazing, especially my uncle. I knew he was a pilot, but I had no idea he’d been through what he had done.” Bob was the second of four brothers who
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