God bless for your service.
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Actually, Bud Garner is the older brother of one of my HS classmates and cousin of another HS classmate.
I served in the army somewhat later.
That was an email Bud Garner sent out this morning to all of the PBHS "Beanpickers" - later changed to "Golden Tornadoes" - I preferred "Beanpickers" - but then - I was a teenage cowboy..... (Brahmas, Quarter Horses, Gators in our pastures)
Bud survived the sinking of his ship by a Japanese submarine in the Pacific campaign.
Bud is now the official City Historian of Pompano Beach, Florida - he writes a newspaper column and has written books on old Pompano and early Florida - his stories are written in an easy readable style and are a refreshing change from reading the phony revisionist garbage cranked out by most writers and journalists today.
His emails are always something to look forward to.
I used some of the photographs Bud sent me on my "WWII - White Cliffs Of Dover" webpages - a Tribute to WWII Vets and all Vets, their families, and our current troops, reserves, and NG. - But my webhost is (allegedly) transferring files and webpages to other "more reliable" servers right now - or so thay claim. I have lots of original WWII songs in .mp3, .wav, and .ram formats and short audio clips from FDR, Churchill, Truman.
I hope I get it back online as I had set it up. I was to busy (dumb) too "mirror" those pages and files on a separate webhost website - that was before the November 2004 elections.
Now I tend to upload everything to 2-5 websites as insurance. No excuses.
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Bud Garner and his WWII buddies are a good comparison to the John Kerry, Teddy Kennedy, al-Gore, Slick Willie Clinton, Hillary, Janet Sterno, Joe Biden, Clarke/Clark, Sandy Berger, Joe Plame-Wilson, Gorelich-Wall cancer in America today that sides with the enemy and believes that talking, commissions, diplomacy, appeasement, bribery is the "progressive future".
911 blew that BS away in seconds.
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