Thanks for the story and pic. Have you recorded those words? Not only are we losing thousands of the 'greatest generation' every day but now their children are getting to the age where they (we) are thinning out too. Now it's our responsibility to make sure those spoken words are put down in writing.
A year ago an acquaintance of mine who is a little older than me told me his dad was killed in a tank in the Pacific during the war when he was a year or two old. He was at my place and saw an old WW2 military project I'm working on and it got him to thinking about his dad.
It's a long story but he did a bunch of searching on the net and actually found an old gentleman who was in that same tank when his dad was killed. He called up this gentleman and found out the tank was hit by friendly fire and the tank is now sitting in San Diego and he now has a picture of it. His dad was up top and the shell bounced off the hatch. The concussion took his dad. The older gentleman told a lot more, but he said after this happened, the commander gathered the men around and told them "the marines never make a mistake and you will never tell anyone about this for the rest of your lives". This was the first time this gentleman had told the story and he is pushing ninety years old.
Our children's generation is twice removed from that war and have no idea what those young soldiers went through to keep us free. Jim
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