Originally posted by SigSAC: Get him talking to Lt. Perry again - maybe he can convince him!
We'd love to have you join us. The reunion in 2013 was in Savannah.
My father didn't talk much about it in earlier years - once he retired from the Air Force in 1968, he moved on to another career. It was just a year or so before Mom passed away (this weekend is the 5 year anniversary of that happening) that she got him talking, and got him to promise to go to one. We've been every year since then.
I'll work on it but these ole Boys are really stubborn! AND He's Greek to boot_ Double Stubborn!
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.
June 16, 2017, 07:41 PM
downtownv
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Originally posted by SigSAC: Get him talking to Lt. Perry again - maybe he can convince him!
We'd love to have you join us. The reunion in 2013 was in Savannah.
My father didn't talk much about it in earlier years - once he retired from the Air Force in 1968, he moved on to another career. It was just a year or so before Mom passed away (this weekend is the 5 year anniversary of that happening) that she got him talking, and got him to promise to go to one. We've been every year since then.
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.
June 16, 2017, 09:29 PM
rangeme101
Cool. Very very cool.
" like i said,....i didn't build it, i didn't buy it, and i didn't break it."
June 16, 2017, 09:41 PM
83v45magna
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!
June 16, 2017, 11:28 PM
Excam_Man
Thanks for sharing, that was awesome!
June 16, 2017, 11:41 PM
David Lee
Very much enjoyed the read dtv. The man lived history.
June 16, 2017, 11:47 PM
Rey HRH
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.
June 17, 2017, 06:47 AM
pwelch001
Wow, what a great story, nice work son!
June 17, 2017, 09:57 AM
chongosuerte
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!
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June 17, 2017, 10:43 AM
Sigfest
Great story. I hope he goes to meet him.
June 17, 2017, 12:13 PM
katndog
great story
June 17, 2017, 03:20 PM
sig229-SAS
That is an incredibly cool story and what a great thing you did for your dad, VERY COOL....
June 17, 2017, 04:17 PM
10X-Shooter
One of the best Fathers Day presents I've heard.
June 17, 2017, 04:31 PM
hapevo
Awesome!
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June 17, 2017, 05:06 PM
scratchy
Outstanding!
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June 17, 2017, 06:02 PM
Elk Hunter
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Originally posted by jaybird86: Well done sir. Well done!
Very well done!!!!
Can't say more right now, my screen just went all fuzzy again.
Elk
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June 17, 2017, 10:31 PM
sigmonkey
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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