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President Obama Commemorates the 70th Anniversary of D-Day

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klys (maker of Silmarils)6/06/2014 10:44:07 pm PDT

re: #193 b.d.

The further we get away from history the more I wish I would have asked more questions. My uncle served in Patton’s tank corps and the only time he ever saw him he bitched him out and called him yellow for coming back with shells in his rack. (coming back with ammo).

Please folks quiz your elders. You can never ask enough questions and it makes the bridge to the past so much stronger.

I only heard some of my grandfather’s stories about Korea once. He never talked about Vietnam (he worked intel, some of it is apparently still classified).

I wish he was still around and I could ask more.

I didn’t discover that he’d gotten his associate’s degree until just this past Christmas. My dad hadn’t known either. Grandpa died before I got married over 3.5 years ago.