VIDEO: Ukraine Troops SURRENDER en-masse; WHITE FLAGS on Tanks (July 30th)
(halturnerradioshow.com)
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My father almost never spoke about his war time , and he never wanted any recognition one on one or otherwise. He did tell me one time that when you got out he could have gotten about anything he wanted. He and another fellow re-boarded and saved a ship, not one below, that was evacuated and sinking. He said they ask him, "what do you want", and said I want to go home, and that was it.
He did get two bronze stars with presidential unit citations, The Guadalcanal patch that he got was the only patch I ever heard him mention.
Here is his ship after it was torpedoed. Pretty amazing it did not sink.
Pop’s youngest brother was a 3/5 Marine, Peleliu, Kwajalein and Okinawa. I was privileged to live next door to him for sixteen years; he would talk to me and his son about the war but not to anyone else.
My two grandmothers sent six boys off to the war and got them all back safe. It was miraculous.
What a great connection to history. I bet he had some great stories, and not all of them good.
I bet you grandmothers were praying women. Would be hard to have six sons off in war and not be.