Requests Letters for WWII Paratrooper, 97, in ‘Rough Shape’ Military.com | By Blake Stilwell Kenneth “Rock” Merritt is a legend in the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He’s a World War II paratrooper whose battle resume reads like a history book of the U.S. Army: Operation Overlord, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge,…