"it was always strange to me how so many of that generation came home and went back to work.I have rarely heard stories about my uncles and there experances to them family the farm and day to day living was all that mattered ."
I asked my Dad that years before he passed at age 90. His answer was "we had a true mission and nothing changed from start to finish". The mission was to defeat the enemy. He told me about leaflets dropped out of aircraft ahead of invasions of the islands. Those leaflets told the natives to leave the towns and cities because everything would be destroyed to get the enemy out. If the natives didn't leave they would be killed too. With the Japanese that meant everyone was killed. My Dad still hated Japanese till the day he died. Never trusted any of them.
He said with a defined mission that didn't waver , the support of the folks at home and the country's leaders they new they had a job to do and had a clear conscience afterwards for the most part. When they finished they came home and went to work. He said when a mission is named and it has to keeping changing names it's not a true mission. He said it's a leaders whim and when support starts to fall they just call it something else to keep trying to gain support. My Dad and 2 of my uncles were in the Pacific. They are my heroes. All men of their word, told you once what they were about to do and did it.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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