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To: brianr10

Our teachers stormed the beaches in Normandy rather than played a silly game.


20 posted on 11/16/2018 7:10:05 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: bray
Our teachers stormed the beaches in Normandy rather than played a silly game.

Yep. My fifth grade teacher was missing a chunk of his right ear, courtesy of a bomb fragment delivered to his ship via kamikaze attack near Okinawa. I overheard he and my dad trading war stories at a parent-teacher event.

28 posted on 11/16/2018 8:09:09 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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Yep. Our football coach was an ex marine. Several other Ww2 vets.


46 posted on 11/17/2018 6:53:40 AM PST by brianr10
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