Thanks for posting. My step grandfather would agree with the poker and black jack games. Since he only made $50 a month he could only send home $50. He claimed that when they were taking some Marines into Iwo Jima he had $10,000 in his foot locker. Taken mostly from the Marines who were going to be hitting the beaches in just a few weeks or days. He claimed he lost most of it before getting back to the States as there was no where to spend it. That guy loved playing black jack. So did the old Sheriff, who was also in the Navy on a destroyer shelling Iwo while my grand father was unloading Marines. Between the 2 of them, you could go broke real quick and they laughed about it the whole time.
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