Posted on 12/25/2014 4:34:34 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
My father and uncle each did two years on Vietnam. They didn't want to go into detail in front of a girl either ... even a girl in her 30s.
Thanks, Homer, and glad to have you back for duty. I appreciate your efforts here. Merry Christmas.
T.W.
Dang, you had me convinced it probably was “H”, but from the J&W menu collection, it was “Fl”
FYI: http://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/restaurant_menus/67/
My mother was one of 11 children of which seven were boys. Six of them served in WW11. They never spoke about “the war”. In 1982 my younger son was going off to Fort Knox for basic and got into a conversation with my uncle Joseph. My son relayed that conversation to me at uncle Joe’s wake in 2003. He
told my son that he was a tanker in that great battle. He was proud that my son was going to Fort Knox. He also asked my son to please not repeat the conversation. He and the rest just never talked about it. All are gone now and no one left in our family knows where they were or what they did. I for one would like to know.
Merry Christmas, henkster.
Command Performance - Christmas 1944
Cast: Bob Hope, Virginia O’Brien, Xavier Cugat, Jerry Colonna, Jimmy Durante, Dinah Shore, Spike Jones & His City Slickers, Ginny Simms, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Kay Kyser, Frances Langford, Verna Felton, Sully Mason, Judy Garland, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Lamour, W.C. Fields, Danny Kaye, Spencer Tracy, Ken Darby Chorus, Frank Nelson, Howard Duff, Lee J. Cobb, Griff Barnett, Elliott Lewis, Harry Bartell, Skippy Homeier, General George Marshall, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, & Navy Secretary James Forrestal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E0ArnM7dTM
Judy Garland Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 1944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Gn865SkPE
Thanks, it’s always nice to know for sure.
All you could do is search for information using their names, or maybe see if anyone else in the family has documents ... letters, discharge papers, etc.
Reading about the ultimate fight for Bastogne from the German point of view was riveting.
I read somewhere in yesterday’s post that from D-day to the Bulge some 40,000 soldiers had been affected with battle fatigue/shell shock/PTSD. I ordered my father’s military records last year. He got out of the Navy during WWII early for what appears to me to be a ruse. He was assigned to a repair ship in the Pacific during the Battle of Guadalcanal. We have read in Homer’s postings about the many Navy battles in the area of Guadalcanal. His ship was responsible for the repairs on many of our ships involved in those battles. My father was from a little town in no where Arkansas. He told the doctors that he had dizzy spells and ringing in his ears. He always told us he got out of the Pacific because of Yellow Fever. PTSD was much more common than I knew during WWII. But I never thought that sailors would be affected. I have no ill feelings for finding out about him. Even if he had told me what he did to get out of the Pacific I would not have felt less of him. I have been diagnosed with PTSD from my time in Vietnam.
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