Posted on 01/22/2011 2:39:25 PM PST by george76
My ninety year old father-in-law, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, still participates as a color guard. This past Memorial Day he was even helping direct traffic at the American Legion’s parking lot. Incredibly spry for his age.
Thank you to the hero; you and others like you keep our flag flying high and proud.
Sounds like my uncle. He’s 90, sharp as a tack and still gets around well. He gave up downhill skiing about 5 years ago! Used to ski every day in Sun Valley, ID.
He is an excellent engineer. The Army assigned him to Oak Ridge to produce uranium for the bomb. His role was to run a shift in the gaseous diffusion plant. That included teaching the local farmers how to run and maintain the equipment.
AMEN!
Nip, my father is like this. He was a scrawny 18 year old fighting the battle of Okinawa. I don't know if he has talked to my brothers (one was 82 Airborne 'Nam and one a retired Sr. Chief of the Navy) but I know he won't talk to me about it. Sad. I want to know his story.
You want age? I am a Vietnam veteran. I was there in 1970. I am now 60 years old. 41 years ago. That is like someone at the end of WWII being there in 1986. At least they had Reagan. I am stuck with the pretender. I still cannot believe that it has been 41 years since I was in Nam. And, there are lots of much older than me Nam vets around. Lots of our senior NCOs and officers were WWII and Korea vets.
Chuck Yeager comes to mind.
Very profound. I can see your thoughts are with this hero.
Hand...Salute.
So sorry to see this era ending and so concerned about where we are now.
Rest in peace. You certainly earned it. Thank you for your service!
Is that anything like insulting the memory of a great man by using his name as a screen name.
Hear,hear
You probably don’t know anything about him. And whodat is the very mark of ignorance.
You are the stupid one and you just more than proved it. So stop bring discredit on a fine mans name. Switch your screen name to local joke are something.
Thanks guys.../sarc
You two ruined this thread...But hey, that’s just my opinion...And everyone has one...
He had 11.5 kills in WWII, one the German Jet M262 fighter. Got shot down, excaped back to England and got back in the fight. He is 87 now. Good stuff in that article.
Good for your father in law. Tell him I said thank you for saving our country in WWII.
Took the whole tour of Europe starting with North Africa, than Italy(Mt.Cassino) France,Belgium(Bulge), and than Germany(Rhine)
I was reading some of his VMails the other day.
He wrote my grandparents telling them that he hoped they would let him come home before shipping out to the Pacific.
An intensely private and humble man, Winters had asked that news of his death be withheld until after his funeral, Jackson said. Winters lived in Hershey, Pa., but died in suburban Palmyra.
Rare, signed photograph of Ed Mauser is for sale. Mauser's home-town obituary here: http://www.ketv.com/r/26589275/detail.html
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