The Uncle I never met ... we lost Raymond on Iwo Jima
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God Bless both of you & your families.
We must remember.
I like to tell myself that if 9/11 happened in 1940 - that we would have never known an Airline on the ropes from people being too afraid to fly.
The Greatest Generation Would Have All Spent Their Life Savings to Buy Airline Tickets Just To Say "FUCK YOU"
That said:
My Great Grandfather served in WW1 and caught Encephilitis - it impacted him the rest of his days.
My GrandFather served and then lied for the rest of his life saying he was never there. He was on a special mechanics unit at Normandy and Bulge. He saw things he never ever wanted to talk about again. He never crawled back out of a bottle. He talked to one of my cousins and my cousin said "He saw things that would make your head crawl. The things they did..."
My Grandfther-In-Law was a Houston Volunteer at age 16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Volunteers
FDR did a whistle stop tour to promote the war. At Age 16 he joined the US Navy and served in the Pacific.
These were great men. They would be horrified to see what is going on today.
God Bless these beautiful young men and women who paid the ultimate price for our freedom. God bless all family members posting here with their stories. ?
My husband's uncle (his Father's brother) was a P-51 pilot in WWII and killed in a mid-air collusion flying weather reconnaissance over Italy just 4 months before the war ended. He's buried in the American Cemetery in Florence, Italy. These cemeteries around the world, American Battle Monument Cemeteries, are actual American Territories no matter where they are located around the world and immaculately kept...well worth a visit. Humbling. His father was a Paratrooper, trained at Camp Toccoa, Camp McCall and Fort Bragg and then made a combat jump into Southern France and fought on to the Bulge.
We owe them a debt that can only be repaid by following the path of our Founders and taking back our Republic.
My father fought in the 66 Division Black Panthers. He was wounded twice. 2 Purple Hearts. We only know the location: in the Ardennes during battle of the Bulge and in the Rhineland. He was in the army and had two brothers in the navy. All came back from the war. We were fortunate. All served after the war during occupation. My father fought Germans and married a Japanese. My uncle Karl fought the Japanese and married a German. My other uncle Oscar fought during the Korean War and married an Italian. We are an international family?
I literally laughed out loud!
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What a family of Patriots! ??
God Bless your Dad and uncles! Thankfully they all came home! Love your charming description... made me smile. Bet family reunions were awesome!