Devin Butts didn’t make the book of his grandfather’s photos from World War II to sell. He made it to keep alive the memory of someone he considered a great man.

“It means that my great-grandchildren will know who my grandfather was and what he did for our country,” said Butts, a former Beeville resident now living in Floresville. “It also preserves his photos for future generations.”

Even the price of the book, which is being sold on Lulu.com and through Anafair.com under the name “Germany 1945 photographs by Edwin S. Brown,” doesn’t have a profit figured in for anyone but the publisher.

His grandfather, Edwin Sallee Brown, who died Oct. 19, 2001, joined the Army shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.

He worked as an intelligence officer with the 9th Armored Division which, as historians say, was the division responsible for helping secure the crucial Ludendorff bridge.

For Austin Edwin Brown II, the son of Edwin Sallee Brown, the book means that other family members can share his father’s memories.

“It is very nice,” he simply said. “He was quite a guy.”

For his father, photography was a hobby.

“He did it as a hobby all his life... We got thousands of pictures,” he said. “It was lucky he started as a young man.”

There are even some old videos by the serviceman thanks to a camera he acquired during the war.