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ANOTHER WW11 VET HAS GONE HOME
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| Sept 14
| snowtigger
Posted on 09/14/2014 7:41:56 AM PDT by snowtigger
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To: snowtigger
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posted on
09/14/2014 7:45:54 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
To: snowtigger
RIP. I really miss these guys.
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posted on
09/14/2014 7:49:46 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: snowtigger
To: snowtigger
God bless him. RIP, sir. We owe your generation more than we can ever repay.
To: snowtigger
Rest in peace .. to the REAL Generation
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posted on
09/14/2014 7:57:17 AM PDT
by
unojook
To: snowtigger
RIP Augie. May God welcome him home with trumpets.
To: snowtigger
What a story! What a life! We are truly blessed to have had such men among us.
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posted on
09/14/2014 8:02:42 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: snowtigger
Your father-in-law helped build America to become the most powerful force for good in the world, both militarily and economically. May he RIP after a job well done.
I watched The Memphis Belle a few weeks ago. What a fine movie. They will all be gone soon (sniff).
To: mad_as_he$$
http://users.cloudnet.com/jfb/
Briol was my mother-in-law's cousin.
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posted on
09/14/2014 8:14:07 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign, number sign, or octothorpe. ###)
To: snowtigger
Manning a ball turret had to be terrifying. Reading the poem “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” at a very young age shocked me and made me suddenly aware that war was the romanticized thing I saw at the movies.
Good by to an incredibly brave man.
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posted on
09/14/2014 8:15:30 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: CrazyIvan
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posted on
09/14/2014 8:17:33 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: CrazyIvan
THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER By Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
My first thought upon reading this was how much like an abortion his death was.
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posted on
09/14/2014 8:33:03 AM PDT
by
choirboy
To: snowtigger
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posted on
09/14/2014 8:47:18 AM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: snowtigger; All
As a former Marine, it's a staggering statistic to realize that 8th USAAF KIA exceeded the total number of USMC KIA in the Pacific.
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posted on
09/14/2014 9:22:54 AM PDT
by
ken5050
("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
To: ken5050
The "Memphis Belle" was supposed to be the first B-17 to finish 25 missions and get a trip home. I've read that the first crews over there averaged 10% casualties. When a B-17 went down, you lost ten men. Not all were killed but they were lost to the war effort. On their worst day, they lost something like 89 planes, that is 890 men.
I used to know another ball-turret gunner. He was more talkative than Augie. He said "all I wanted to do was get the pilot by the throat and explain to him that those people shooting at us WERE really trying to kill us and it would be better to just turn around and go home". But, they didn't, they flew on into the inferno. I have always wondered where they got the cajone's. The same can be said for those who stormed the beaches.
I try to thank God often for such men. We can not ever let this country ever slip away, it cost them too much. PS I'm 65 years old and missed Viet Nam because of asthma and a heart murmur. I've spent my life regretting it while being thankful at the same time.
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posted on
09/14/2014 9:51:03 AM PDT
by
snowtigger
(It ain't what you shoot, it's what you hit.)
To: snowtigger
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posted on
09/14/2014 10:13:40 AM PDT
by
mowowie
To: snowtigger
My dad was a ww2 vet also. He went to be with the Lord this past Feb 6, 2014. He was 93 years old. I loved him beyond words. Truly they were the Greatest Generation.
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posted on
09/14/2014 11:04:40 AM PDT
by
txgirl4Bush
(Impeach obama)
To: snowtigger
My uncle Lloyd probably knew him.
Lloyd was a navigator on a B-17 out of England and later, Benghazi.
To: snowtigger
My condolences to your wife and to you.
As for your father-in-law, it seems they made special men back then. I feel lessened by his death.
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posted on
09/14/2014 12:42:43 PM PDT
by
Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
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