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Toughest post of the year. 44 years ago on Dec.1 my father left the party, much too young.He was one of the Greatest Generation,serving in Europe duringWWII With Patton's 3rd Army, in the 69th Infantry Division as a Combat Engineer. This was the outfit that fought in the Battle of the Bulge, in the Ardennes- the last place you would want to be in 1944- and broke through the siege at Bastogne to relieve the 101st Airborne Division. Dad earned two bronze stars in the Ardennes, And the 69th went on to fight at the Bridge at Remagen, liberate a sub-camp of Buchenwald, and meet the Russians at the River Elbe on VE Day.In his records he was noted as being gifted with a machine gun, and adept at clearing mine fields. This is him, at home with his Mother late summer 1945 awaiting orders to ship to the Pacific.After all that, he was not quite 20 years old when this pic was taken. Luckily, the Atom Bombs were dropped before orders came.Everything you own in life , everything you have known in life, you owe to men like this.
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Sorry for your loss…actually all our loss. I too was blessed to have been raised by a Dad who gave all fir his country. America owes your and my Dad along with thousands of others a great debt.
Buy once, cry once.
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Campfire Ranger
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Thanks to your father for helping bail out my Uncle Charlie.
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Campfire Outfitter
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Only accurate rifles are interesting.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Kids becoming men...instantly.
A tip of the glass for your father tonight. He and men like him built this country, my grandfathers included. They're the true American heros.
Camp is where you make it.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Thanks to him and all the rest.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Thanks to your father, another hero. “The bombs” likely saved my dads life, in that he was wounded on Okinawa, but patched up and would have been in the ground invasion of Japan, had it occurred.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Everything you own in life , everything you have known in life, you owe to men like this. True words have never been spoken! God Bless the Ingwe Dad!
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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I thank him for his Service.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Campfire Kahuna
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I am MAGA.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Many thanks to your father and all who have or are serving! May he RIP
FJB & FJT
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Campfire Kahuna
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I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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…..everything you have known in life, you owe to men like this. Yes we do!
Black Cows Matter!
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NRA Life,Endowment,Patron or Benefactor since '72.
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I think all of us had family who fought in that war. It's just us older ones, though, who knew them personally. My mother's brother was also in the Battle of the Bulge. He was with a roving team of engineers who traveled all over the place, wherever their skills were needed. Incredibly, he was never in a firefight, even when the bullets were flying all around them. Mom's other brother was navy. He was at Pearl and later piloted a landing craft during the Tarawa landing. My dad was also navy. He spent the war guarding both of our coasts from u-boats. He was 1st on a sub chaser doing convoy escort out of Florida. He then switched to flying blimps doing u-boat surveillance on both coasts.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Thanks to your Dad and a whole lot of others!
My Dad was in the South Pacific Islands also, he had been sent to an Australian hospital for recovery from getting hit in the head from an ejecting artillery shell, dysentery, and malaria. After recovery he was sent back to the Philippines awaiting a possible land invasion of Japan.
The A-bomb saved a lot of American and Japanese lives.
Life (and forums) is like a box of animal crackers----There's a Jackass in every box
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Ingwe, God Bless your Father, my grandfather,who was a paratrooper, and the two great uncles ( Pacific Navy) I never had the pleasure of meeting, and all the MEN like them.
Most 20 year olds today can't tie they're effing shoes.
"Aim right, squeeze light" " Might as well hit what you're aiming at, it kicks the same whether you miss or not" NRA Life, GOA
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Campfire Tracker
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Most all of my old friends of the Great - Generation are gone. Lost one of the last I know of last month. Dad, stepDad, FIL, all gone. Lost a piece of my heart with every loss. They all taught me something. Not a week goes by without someone being on my heart. Take Care Brothers. RZ.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill.
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