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"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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I think all the World War 2 vets I've known or have met are gone now. We are poorer for their loss.
Retired cat herder.
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My uncle piloted a navy landing craft on Tarawa, hauling the marines to shore. He was only 19 at the time. Who knows, their paths might have crossed. my brother in law, now deceased, did the same thing at the same place. He was also active on shore, but i never asked him how that came to be.
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Great post RR,
Thank God for all the good men from that generation.
I hope he may RIP - surely well deserved....................
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I think all the World War 2 vets I've known or have met are gone now. We are poorer for their loss. Yes we are. The article was posted in 2005. I'm sure that we're not losing 2,000 a day now! A sincere Thank You to all the veterans that have gone before us ! Happy Memorial Day !
Last edited by keith_dunlap; 05/26/19.
if a man speaks, and there isn't a woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
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No, Keith. You are sadly correct. Most WWII veterans would be pushing 95 now. Most of them have joined their brothers in arms. All of Doolittle's Raiders are gone, the last one passing just this year. My parents (both were Army, and Dad drove a deuce and a half in the Battle of the Bulge) are long gone.
Slow salute for all...
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Thank you for sharing
-Jake
Small Game, Deer, Turkey, Bear, Elk....It's what's for dinner.
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In God We Trust.
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My dad very likely survived the war because the coxwain on his invasion landing craft made a mistake. On D Day Dad's squad was supposed to land adjacent to a point of land sticking out off the beach. Fortunately, the boat went to the wrong point. The spot they were supposed to have gone in was heavily defended, and those men took very heavy casualties. Dad's unit was to take an airfield inland from the beach, but they went in several miles from their point of debarkation. They found the airfield when they saw British aircraft landing on it.
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A lot of marines on Tarawa got shot up because of someone's stupid mistake. They were supposed to go in at high tide as sand bars were a big problem at low tide. Someone misread the tide tables and sent them in at low tide. The boats were getting hung up on sandbars and were sitting ducks for the Japs mortars.
“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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Thank you. In a few minutes I’m heading to a Memorial Service at our local cemetery , we have 3 WW II veterans who still participate in the services. One who was at Guadalcanal .watching them stand at attention and hearing Taps brings me to tears every time .
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My wife's uncle, Frank Horvath from North Arlington, New Jersey (all 5'6" of him) was wounded at Guadalcanal in 1942 and again at Iwo Jima in 1945. He walked with a permanent limp after taking an unfired .50 cal shell to the hip after a Jap motor blew up an ammo storage area at Iwo Jima. It must have been a tough 3 years between those two battles. He never talked about the war and I only found out about the two Purple Hearts when I went to his funeral and they were pinned on his casket. RIP Uncle Frank!
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Thank you for posting that, sir.
Sadly, there are not many left from the Greatest Generation.
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My sincere thanks to all who fell while serving.
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Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
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