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PorkChopExpress
Location: Pled's Pig Farm, Virginia Gender: Male Total Likes: 7 likes
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| | | I will always remember the men and women who fought and died to give me the right of freedom. This is my pledge. < on 11/11/2009 10:12 PM > | Reply with Quote
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| "Deep in the human psyche there lies the need to believe in something fantastic, something powerful, something unknown." "Touch what you cannot solve, and return to me. I'll give you hints, and I'll give you three..." Zork Nemesis "I eat asbestos and piss PCBs." |
| PorkChopExpress
Location: Pled's Pig Farm, Virginia Gender: Male Total Likes: 7 likes
Stand Up Philosopher
| | | Re: I will always remember the men and women who fought and died to give me the right of freedom. This is my pledge. < Reply # 11 on 5/31/2010 7:11 PM > | Reply with Quote
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| "Deep in the human psyche there lies the need to believe in something fantastic, something powerful, something unknown." "Touch what you cannot solve, and return to me. I'll give you hints, and I'll give you three..." Zork Nemesis "I eat asbestos and piss PCBs." |
| Esoterik
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 122 likes
| | | Re: I will always remember the men and women who fought and died to give me the right of freedom. This is my pledge. < Reply # 12 on 9/1/2010 4:00 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My father on the far right - photo taken after his squad captured a VC rocket crew targeting the airport at Da Nang. Awarded the Silver Star posthumously - citation here: http://www.three27...s/SSHazelwood.html 3516 - Automotive Mechanic Tour began on February 19, 1968 Married 24 Years Old Gypsum, Kansas February 9, 1944 to May 28, 1968
| “You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.” |
| Esoterik
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 122 likes
| | | Re: I will always remember the men and women who fought and died to give me the right of freedom. This is my pledge. < Reply # 13 on 9/1/2010 4:53 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Here's a story about the above rocket picture. The picture was taken for Stars and Stripes in a story about the capture of the rockets. Glossy B&W copies of the photo were made for each of the men in the photo. Being squad leader, my dad offered to carry the photos in his pack - they were due for R&R soon, and he was going to carry them all then hand them out when they had a break. When he died, the photos disappeared - his possessions went to my mom, who had the stuff boxed up. Years later, in the early 90's, I made an effort to find people who served with and knew my dad. This was pre-internet, so it involved a lot of phone calls and letter writing to Marine Corps archives. One thing led to the next, and I met up with the guy standing 3rd from the left - John George from Pennsylvania. From the men in that photo, he was only one of two to survive the war (he thought there might have been a 3rd, but was not sure). He brought up the photo first - saying "you know, there was a time when we were all in the paper and had a group picture taken - I never knew what happened to those pictures." I was able to pull one out immediately and give it to him. I also had a photographer turn it into a negative so I could make copies (the ones in the pack had gotten wet and there were only a couple in good shape) and sent those out. The Moving Wall is coming to my town in a month and I'll be able to go look at his name (I was born shortly before he left for Viet Nam.)
| “You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.” |
| Esoterik
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 122 likes
| | | Re: I will always remember the men and women who fought and died to give me the right of freedom. This is my pledge. < Reply # 14 on 10/4/2010 2:30 PM > | Reply with Quote
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| “You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.” |
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