Eddie is Beth’s lively eighty-year-old Irish-American Father. When he was barely a man, he enlisted in the army and spent nearly seven years fighting in the War. When the Nazis won, he returned home with his friend, George, defeated. He didn’t recognize the world he came home to and struggled to find his path.He ultimately chose medicine, believing his survival from the war obligated him to find a way to do good in the world. With the dark cloud of the Nazi Party hanging over the world’s head, he thought that was the only way to do it. In his older age, he is boisterous and does not hold back his opinion, much to Peter’s dismay. He is both Grace and Sophie’s confidant, telling the latter his wartime stories.