Posted on 11/29/2013 9:43:46 AM PST by armydawg505
GREENVILLE, SC — The last surviving member of the crew that rescued John F. Kennedy from an island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II died Wednesday.
Greenville native Jack Gardo was 87. He died in his sleep at his home on Farrs Bridge Road, his daughter-in-law Brenda Gardo said.
Gardo enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 16, two years younger than the legal age, because he wanted to serve his country.
In 1943, Gardo’s PT 157 was sent to rescue the survivors of PT 109, which was cut in half by a Japanese ship. The crew knew where PT 109 was when it sank, but not where the survivors had gone. Five days passed.
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And in exchange we get narcissistic tyrants like the Lyin King.
How long will it be until a generation comes along that has regains that strength, dedication, faith, and perseverance in the face of adversity??? We’re going to need such a generation pretty soon...
I read that the average age of the surviving WWII veterans is 93. They are passing away quickly.
Jack Gardo's children's generation has worked hard to abort and contracept that generation from existing.
I always found it curious that after Kennedy was killed by a Marxist the Democrat party seemed to have adopted Marxism, started it’s downward spiral into Marxism whereas today we have a hardcore one as POTUS. That’s the one thing that makes me believe Oswald didn’t act alone. And if you think about it, they’ve infected the Repubs as well.
The operation went as planned.
The greatest generation(s) took our guns and wrote a law to replace the American voter.
From unionizing government, to Vietnam, to the 1965 Immigration Act, JFK was the end of us.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s. In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960. In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin. After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”
JFK: The unfit commander of a high performance boat that that on a calm clear night managed to be surprised and rammed by an enemy vessel many times larger and less maneuverable than his own.
JFK should have been charged with a crime for allowing his vessel to be cut in half by an enemy ship.
He might have been charged if his last name was different.
The only way a destroyer could have snuck all the way up on a PT boat on a combat mission and cut it in half, is if the crew of the PT boat was asleep.
Period.
Rest in peace Mr. Gardo.
Amen.
Kennedys - Can’t Drive, Can’t Fly, Can’t Ski, Can’t Skipper a Boat........but they know what’s best for us.
I believe that the key to finding the next “Greatest Generation” will be in the next tangible “Greatest Adversity”.
The young men and women serving today are, indeed, some of our best and brightest. (Even with the ravages brought about by the current administration)
Semper Fi
I love to hear Bobby Ballard tell about how he happened to take the assignment to search for PT 109.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0709_020710_kennedyPT109.html
I really do wonder about that. With JFK went the last ounce of sense from the Demoncrat party, and he was young, charismatic, etc and about the only person that could have confronted them head-on in the public eye about veering into looney-land.
But I’ve had to consign my questions about that to the same bin as my last couple ones about 9/11, labeled “Forget About Them For Now and Ask God Later.”
Kennedy himself would be 96 now.
Those Kennedy boys seemed to have a tough time navigating around bodies of water.
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