Memorial Day
 

Have good weekend everyone and remember those who gave their all for all of us.

You have a great weekend too Bob.

And hear hear! :

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Pete

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France

Yes, absolutely. 'Tis a time when I reflect on all of the wartime veterans I've known....................

And how so many of them hoped the war they fought would be the last.

Kinda sad, if you really think about it.

Dave

I always think of my dad this time of year, more often than I usually do. He was just a 19 year old kid when he saw his first firefight, and took incoming enemy fire, in the Pacific during WWII in the Navy. I'm sure he was scared shitless, but he hung in there because he knew it was the right thing to do.

Mine, too. He was in the 10th Armored, 3rd Army. (Gen. Patton commanding:eek:)

There were way too many gold stars in windows back then but it was very much them or us.
Thank you and may you all rest in peace.

My Dad was lucky enough to make it out alive as well. He was with these guys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/104th_I...ited_States%29
He didn't keep much nor would he talk about it much either. I do have his shoulder patches, some hardware and his Purple Heart somwhere around here put away.




Carl

Both of my parents were proud Navy Veterans. Been a tough one this year with the loss of my Mother almost a month ago. Just today found her uniform and pictures from her days in DC. Brought home her footlocker and my youngest brother got my Fathers from his Vietnam days. Tough remembering all the memories. No one wants to talk about the ceremony with the active duty coming up.



Barney

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Carl

My Dad never saw direct combat, but he did get to go to Pearl just after the attack and spend months helping clean up the gory mess. I personally witnessed a couple of the nightmares that haunted him right up to his final days. He sat up in his hospital bed and yelled at me; "No kidding! I can see they're all dead! They're bloated up and stinking too! Now get your ass down here and give us a hand!"

I had an uncle who survived the Kamikaze attacks on the USS Bunker Hill. He said he was "..taking a whiz when the first one hit." He ran to his Battle Station so quick he forgot to "...stow it. I got all the way there and realized it was flappin' in the breeze." Ya had to hear him tell the story. He made it sound funny, but there was an expression on his face that gave us a chill.

My brother does not like to talk about Vietnam. We don't ask.

Dave

Got the day off paid? See here, you are lucky.
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I can dig it.:) see my next post...

On the road to Bastogne, Belgium. 10th Armored Division, 3rd Army M4 tank turret. The fine folk in Belgium remember the sacrifices endured by my Dad's brothers in arms there.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Ar...(United_States)

Yep. We depend on the turn of a friendly card. If your employer is an a-hole, guess what....You have to fight to get anything out of him and that just might get you nothing but unemployed. And, yet we are told that this is "freedom".....Really?......Is it?.......Freedom for a-holes, maybe.

Dave

Cool, Bob. Tha Battle for Bastogne was brutal.

Dave

Thanks, Dave. He was lucky to have been a private in the Hdqtrs battalion guarding Luxembourg City while those guys in 10th AD Combat Command B were getting mauled in Bastogne with the 101st Airborne. Later on they liberated one of the Dachau camps in Landsberg, Germany. Like so many others he flat refused to talk about it when asked other than to say, "You don't want to know."

I tried to research his time there after he passed away but the records were destroyed in a fire. We found his bronze star in his effects after he died but the details of how and why he was awarded it will remain forever an unsolved mystery.