My father had great stories of the Pacific...I can't wait to see him again...Originally Posted by Gonzomedic
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My father had great stories of the Pacific...I can't wait to see him again...
Esquire
One of my favorites was when they were liberated someone asked who were cooks? My father and a friend raised they're hands (they weren't cooks!) They ate so much they got sick! Another was when he back talked one of the guards and got his teeth handed to him by the butt end of a rifle. I guess he's where I get my "wise-azz" personality from! I wish I wrote them down he had a bunch of stories!
When thing's look bad,pray,when things are good pray!
"Those willing to give up they're Liberty for security,deserve neither!"-Benjamin Franklin
Carpe' Diem
My life is not what someone else makes of it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGRosZ6VzU
Senator
Y'all are blessed that they told you the stories...
My wife's grandfather was in WWII - Normandy and saw a bunch of action in many theaters (including being in a fox hole with 3 other soldiers for close to a week pinned down by snipers)... He never spoke once about what he did, or what he saw until one day he walked over to me and started talking...
Man oh man was it funny to see everyone in the family try to hear the tales... Try to weasel in to have a listen...
Problem for them is that when Tata saw them he stopped and glared at them until they would leave.
Funny that he would confide in me like this since he wanted to kill me in the beginning of this relationship...
I would like to go and get him to open up some more but there is always someone hovering and being a pest. Stories about guarding POW's here in the US, seeing mussolini hanging upside down, being ready to get on a boat to go to japan before the bombs were dropped. Never really touched on the beach landing though - I guess that was still too much for him to give up.
GOD Speed to Our Vets!
Ferris
VAXXED from cover up to catastrophe
CDC lied and more kids died
Why lie? I AM a thread killer.
Sun Tzu must have seen babs coming when he put this down in writing: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemies country WHOLE and INTACT. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment or a company than to destroy them...
Merchant
When I was a teenager, I read a couple books that had been written about POW life and escape attempts. They were each great books, showing a lot of ingenuity.
That and Hogan's Heroes inspired me to later join one of the 'underground' fraternities. Then during my Active Duty career while stationed in Europe, I greatly enjoyed touring and seeing symbols 'hidden' in plain view on structures.
Senator
One of my sgts. on the dept was a WWII vet. He spent 3 years in a German POW camp.
He told of the villagers nearby throwing the lower half of a horse's leg over the wire for the prisoners. They feasted that night. Made a heckuva soup he told me.
Once in a great while a Red Cross package made it to them and there was tea in there. They would brew and rebrew and then brew again.
Then when that was exhausted, they would dry it out and smoke it in their pipes.
He still smoked a pipe on the dept.
He's gone now but not in my head.
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