Posted by CoopertownBob on June 18, 2010 at 12:10:30 from (74.51.5.110):
In Reply to: Way OT,Combat Vets? posted by Al in Ark on June 17, 2010 at 21:06:46:
Seems I come from a long line of Warriors, and I seem to find them every where I look these days as well.
Grand-dad chased Pancho Villa throughout Mexico, was cut pretty badly with a machete across his back, then went to Europe a few years later for that little tiff they had called The Great War, was wounded again, and lived with the pain for the rest of his days.
Dad was a Ranger and later an instructor at Polk for swamp phase of Ranger school in the early 1960's. He too carries scars from his tours.
Me, I rode with "King" George on the "Real Last Crusade", under the banner of the 101st, took a stray in the hand, just as hostilities ceased, and when the sands got hot again under "King" George II, this time coming home in the same shape as when I left, fortunately, after earning two more combat ribbons to go with my first, just before retiring in '03.
My wife's grandfather was a member of HHQ Company of the 9th Armored that captured the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, which is a small town on the banks of the Rhine, and was made famous as the first point the Allies crossed the Rhine in pursuit of the retreating Germans and by a 1969 movie called "The Bridge at Remagen", which told the story of the week long battle to capture it intact.
My father-in-law was a Spook in Nam, and actually carried one of the infamous "Get out of Jail Free" cards that told anyone who stopped him that he was authorized to carry all manner of weapons, wear civvies, do not detain him and so forth.
I lost a first cousin to Nam, whose name is on the Wall, and my wife's step Grandfather "hit the beach" on "Bloody Omaha", earning no less than three Purple Hearts in the process! And you know what? He didn't get to claim three hits and I get to go home like a recent Presidential Candidate did!
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