[Bender2]

I first signed up here on FR my handle was sonofatpatcher.

T-Patchers are those who served with the 36th Infantry Division in WW2. Their shoulder insignia is a 'T' inside an arrowhead that was the original National Guard patch indicating men from Texas & Oklahoma served in it. By 1940 when the unit was federalized, they were mainly an all-Texas group.

Therefore, I am a son of a T-Patcher and took this as my FR id. I was the original sonofatpatcher ( http://www.freerepublic.com/~sonofatpatcher/ ) joined Apr 23, 2000, but was away for a bit and came back to find I could not get my old password. (Computer crash & change of e-mails and servers, etc...) I resigned up as sonofatpatcher2.

Another crash had me returning as... Bender2-- And remain so... to this day.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Arrowhead1952's National Guard patch.

Not too long after he retired from the Guard...he fell.
Prayers continue for his recovery from horrible head trauma.

[Impy]

I was a member of another message board, one for a computer game, I kept talking politics and some libtard told me to go join Free Republic, I had never heard of it. I lurked for a couple years till I joined in ‘03. My name at the other board was “Imperator” (yes, I am that full of myself ;) ) which I chose probably cause I had just seen that TV movie with Timothy Dalton as Caesar and Billy Zane as Mark Antony where they used that title a lot so it was in my head when I was choosing a name. People called me “Impy” for short. “Imperator” was taken here, so I went with “Impy”.

That account on that other board I eventually lost when I tried to change the password and they sent a new one to a defunct email addresses. Make sure your password is something you can remember, don’t just keep a random default one!

[NFHale]

36th Texans... Wow... Those guys took a hell of beating crossing the Rapido river in Italy. Tough outfit. Part of Mark Clarke’s 5th Army.

Was your old man part of that campaign, Bender?