Found A Pic Of My Grandfather Breaking The Law And Taking A Selfie
My grampa was a true bad ass. Fought in WWI, made trench art, based in the swamps of Florida after the Great War, moonshiner, made stills at the air base with the help of German POW's in WWII, built M1 Garands out of stolen parts before they could be bought as surplus.
I have an album of these pictures I am going to restore that my older brother sent me.
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April 04, 2017, 05:52 PM
Balzé Halzé
Sounds like 'Merica!
~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country
Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
April 04, 2017, 05:53 PM
TBH
Very nice. My sister sent me some old photos last weekend. Fond memories. Remember, some laws were meant to be broken.
P226 9mm CT Springfield custom 1911 hardball Glock 21 Les Baer Special Tactical AR-15
April 04, 2017, 05:54 PM
ArtieS
Working the still in a tie. That's a stylish gentleman.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
April 04, 2017, 05:55 PM
Mars_Attacks
He's in uniform....
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April 04, 2017, 06:01 PM
sigmonkey
Well, then that was perfectly legal for the government to make alternative fuels for the effort. Yeah, that's it, making fuel...
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
April 04, 2017, 06:04 PM
nhtagmember
my grandfather was a rum runner from Bermuda to Nova Scotia back in the old days
he had some great stores before he passed
[B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC
April 04, 2017, 06:07 PM
Killer Instincts
Badass!
April 04, 2017, 06:10 PM
erj_pilot
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
April 04, 2017, 06:47 PM
Mars_Attacks
And a little proof for the pudding.
Like 180 proof.
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April 04, 2017, 06:49 PM
newtoSig765
I had a great-uncle who was rumored to have been, at various times during Prohibition, a Federal Liquor Inspector and a tail-gunner on a beer truck.
While he was a Liquor Inspector it's said that he once visited a Doctor who had impeccable books. Telling some fellow inspectors about it, they informed him that he had just audited the books of Al Capone's personal physician.
I don't know if either story is true, but they sure-as-hell should be!
-------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken
I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18
April 04, 2017, 06:55 PM
Mars_Attacks
And when the judge only wants the best hooch there is and doesn't want to lose his supply....
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April 04, 2017, 06:58 PM
GGF
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Art of the Deal!
GGF
April 04, 2017, 07:03 PM
ScreamingCockatoo
Those that have come to our shoots have to to shoot his 1911.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
April 04, 2017, 07:08 PM
MikeinNC
What part of Florida was he in??? my family (mom's side) is from Lafayette County Fla...My Pop-Pop married Leon Sherrod-sister of Robert Sherrod of WWII fame (author) who was a Georgia Peach
ETA that the Sherrods were from Thomas County GA.
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein
“You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020
“A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker
April 04, 2017, 07:11 PM
Mars_Attacks
He moved to Miami until his death in 1966.
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April 04, 2017, 07:12 PM
ScreamingCockatoo
Miami. I found his death records.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
April 04, 2017, 07:26 PM
Mars_Attacks
Here he is not long before he died.
I have this Garand.
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April 04, 2017, 07:36 PM
walkinghorse
Cool story, and pictures! Not a snowflake around in that time and country!!
Jim
April 04, 2017, 08:09 PM
jimmy123x
quote:
Originally posted by Balzé Halzé: Sounds like 'Merica!
