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Independence Day Karma: ***P228*** ------> *** Winner = Ryanp225 ***
June 16, 2017, 02:58 PM
NipperIndependence Day Karma: ***P228*** ------> *** Winner = Ryanp225 ***
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Originally posted by Nipper:
Wow! Thank you for the opportunity. Only on SF.
My Uncle Eddie is in the second row center. B24 named "Take Off Time" in WW II based in Manduria, Italy. Shot down Feb 14, 1944 on a combat mission in Nazi held northern Italy. Captured and spent the rest of the war as a POW in a Nazi camp on the Baltic coast.
Some curious facts I discovered after his death in 2007:
- Manduria is located 12 miles from where I was stationed (Brindisi) 1n the early 1960's. I served in the U.S.A.F Security Service and we had an intelligence collection site located there.
- After the war he continued with the U.S. Army Air Force and then the U.S. Air Force. Uncle Eddie then joined the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) after he retired from the U.S. Air Force. Consequently, he was one of our "customers" for intelligence we were collecting at the Brindisi site. Always wondered if he worked with anything I sent upstream.
As we know, freedom is not free. Thanks to all who served. Happy Fourth to all.
Eddie second row center:
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"Take Off Time" Nose Art:
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June 16, 2017, 03:28 PM
ravens1775Awesome. Thanks! Happy Independence Day. Here is a pic of an antiqued wooden American Flag I picked up from my buddies at Flags of Valor.
June 16, 2017, 03:29 PM
ArLEOretVery generous of you. Please count me in.
Officers lives matter!
June 16, 2017, 03:37 PM
ace73Please count me in too!
Any chance your work is going to expand to the
Detroit area?!
June 16, 2017, 03:41 PM
clubleaf206Like the line from the song;
"Doo, doo, doo' lookin' out my front door.
The first SiG I owned was a P228, I'd sure like to have another.
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June 16, 2017, 03:42 PM
RileyI would like a chance, thank you!
Happy Independence Day!
Do not send me to a heaven where there are no dogs.
Step Up or Stand Aside: Support the Troops !
Expectations are premeditated disappointments. June 16, 2017, 03:46 PM
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June 16, 2017, 03:51 PM
1KPerDay
Please include me. Thanks!
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June 16, 2017, 04:00 PM
GT-40DOCYes please....I don't know how to post photos....sorry.
June 16, 2017, 04:13 PM
jaybird86Please count me in. Thank you!
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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche
June 16, 2017, 04:28 PM
Black92LXAdd me please with a little picture I took at the All Star Game a couple years back!!!
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June 16, 2017, 04:44 PM
Floyd D. BarberPlease put my name in.
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June 16, 2017, 04:50 PM
matthew03Please include me in your karma, sorry I don't have a hosting site, and post from my phone, or work. Possibly my avatar will work, it's me shooting a P229 SCT back in or around 2010.
Thank you for always being such a generous contributor.
June 16, 2017, 04:59 PM
vincent317Thank you for the generous karma, please count me in.
June 16, 2017, 05:00 PM
Ryanp225Please include me.
My contribution is a photo of my last ride in my 1969 Camaro.
June 16, 2017, 05:06 PM
ensigmaticYet another incredibly generous karma. Thanks, 12131! Please count me in.
Here's a bit of Americana: My wife finishing up a round of skeet at a sportsman's club's annual picnic to which we had been invited as guests
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher June 16, 2017, 05:18 PM
tk13Another very generous Karma, thank you! You asked for a picture of Americana. How about a memory from my childhood, Americana Amusement Park:
June 16, 2017, 05:20 PM
drtenb330
Please count me in. Taken today in South Florida
June 16, 2017, 06:06 PM
cas
I have more than 228 posts.
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June 16, 2017, 06:06 PM
V-TailFantastic karma!
Please include me.
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