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I'll work on it but these ole Boys are really stubborn! AND He's Greek to boot_ Double Stubborn! | |||
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If he won't come, then come on down by yourself! We'll work out photos that will make him envious of missing the trip! BTW, my father was in the 2nd Air Division, 392nd BG, 576th Squadron. 32 missions as a gunner over Europe. | |||
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I'm sure he was your hero growing too! | |||
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That's the best thing I've read in a while. i do hope they get together soon. That 2003 article is pretty good as well. Greatest generation is no lie. | |||
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Cool. Very very cool. " like i said,....i didn't build it, i didn't buy it, and i didn't break it." | |||
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Your OP had me grinning ear to ear. I really hope you can eventually find a way to convince your dad to go. It could happen. Jallen was right, you are lucky! | |||
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Thanks for sharing, that was awesome! | |||
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| 7.62mm Crusader |
Very much enjoyed the read dtv. The man lived history. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
That was a great story. And I'm sure they enjoyed their conversation. That was a great gift. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| Flying Sergeant |
Wow, what a great story, nice work son! | |||
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| Do No Harm, Do Know Harm |
This may be my favorite story I've ever read here. My dad was 101st Airborne in Vietnam, went in right after the Tet offensive. I think he was in country for 9 months, then got out as a supply sgt. He got an air assault medal (I think?), purple heart, and a bronze star. He doesn't talk about it, except a story of a mortar attack where some guys he knew were killed, and finding occasion to shoot his M16 in a house and rupture his eardrums. And one about someone blowing them self up with a grenade that had the pin fall out before it had been bent, throwing it like a hot potato goofing off. I do remember going to the memorial wit him when I was very young and him looking for old friends on the wall. Yours is a very moving, and lucky, story! Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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Great story. I hope he goes to meet him. | |||
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great story | |||
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Joie de vivre |
That is an incredibly cool story and what a great thing you did for your dad, VERY COOL.... | |||
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Now Serving 7.62 |
One of the best Fathers Day presents I've heard. | |||
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Don't Shop. Adopt. |
Awesome! ______________________________________________ "Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever." - Karen Davison "Man can measure the values of his own soul in the look of the eyes of an animal he's helped" - Author Unkown | |||
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Itchy was taken |
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Very well done!!!! Can't say more right now, my screen just went all fuzzy again. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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A Grateful American |
In that phone call, the years past dissolved, and those men were as if there was no time past. You did good. Thank you. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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