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RE: And my dad was there....................

Posted on: February 19, 2017 at 20:39:46 CT
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God bless. I also had some relatives who fought in that war and they really didn't talk about it.

I've always been big on WWII history, but I'm reading about it again and it's really amazing what those soldiers in the Pacific endured.
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72 years ago today 30,000 Marines landed on Iwo Jima... - Salty Dog MU - 2/19 20:10:49
     23rd will be the 72nd anniversary of the flag being raised - Mo Texan MU - 2/19 21:01:37
          Flag raiser's Lt was from Ray County (Richmond area)(nm) - pfann4mizzou MU - 2/19 21:42:26
     I sat and listened to two former Marines talk about - tigerfans3 MSSU - 2/19 20:56:50
     Yes, and the instinct to question Japanese's peoples loyalty - MUTGR MU - 2/19 20:37:53
          HIndsight is 20/20.(nm) - Alferd Packer MU - 2/19 21:30:02
          recall that FDR intervened and provided military support - pickle MU - 2/19 20:56:52
               You mean that US policy was opposition to Jap war against - Alferd Packer MU - 2/19 21:32:43
                    no (nm) - pickle MU - 2/19 21:33:56
                         What's the difference?(nm) - Alferd Packer MU - 2/19 21:34:40
                              He's ventured into historical facts now, he is wrong and - MUTGR MU - 2/19 21:36:52
                                   I don't expect any meaningful from him except for some - Alferd Packer MU - 2/19 21:39:55
                                        Or some Mises diatribe(nm) - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/19 21:41:00
               The US embargoed all oil exports after Japan invaded - Mo Texan MU - 2/19 21:24:37
                    you just agreed: FDR intervened - pickle MU - 2/19 21:29:33
                         Saying he did that only to provoke Japan is the part I - Mo Texan MU - 2/19 21:33:13
                              as i said - pickle MU - 2/19 21:35:43
                                   I don't think the embargo was the single provocation and - Mo Texan MU - 2/19 21:51:00
                                        i never said it was the single provocation - pickle MU - 2/19 21:52:20
                                             OK, we agree(nm) - Mo Texan MU - 2/19 21:57:51
                                             The ((Austrian)) economists can't save you here. nm. - MUTGR MU - 2/19 21:53:21
                                                  lol. what? - pickle MU - 2/19 22:09:19
                         You can't get around Japan violated the NAP...they - MUTGR MU - 2/19 21:31:44
               RE: recall that FDR intervened and provided military support - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/19 21:12:00
               Japan chose to attack the US. Just as Bin Laden did - MUTGR MU - 2/19 21:02:26
     And my dad was there.................... - Fred G. Sanford USA - 2/19 20:33:23
          Mine was somewhere in Italy, Rome or Sicily. - Alferd Packer MU - 2/19 21:25:49
          Mine too. On an oiler keeping diesel and gasoline on those - jmlppx MU - 2/19 20:52:26
          On that day, my father was back in Pearl Harbor... - Salty Dog MU - 2/19 20:42:28
               Doesn't matter what he was. God bless him(nm) - jmlppx MU - 2/19 20:53:15
                    Like so many others, on Dec. 7, 1941 he was 19 years old... - Salty Dog MU - 2/19 21:18:26
          RE: And my dad was there.................... - MUTGR MU - 2/19 20:39:46
               Grandfather fought in North Africa - HandBanana MU - 2/19 20:55:20
                    My dad was in N Africa as support. - Alferd Packer MU - 2/19 21:38:05
                    Just imagine yourself doing that when you were 18, 19 or 20 - Salty Dog MU - 2/19 21:22:15
                         Saw Saving Private Ryan in a theater and was prepared for - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/19 21:33:03
                              I took my father to see it... - Salty Dog MU - 2/19 21:38:24
                         RE: Just imagine yourself doing that when you were 18, 19 or 20 - MUTGR MU - 2/19 21:23:42
                              Same here (nm) - Salty Dog MU - 2/19 21:28:47
     a total waste (nm) - pickle MU - 2/19 20:21:35
          Shut up, sh*thead(nm) - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/19 20:26:04
     There is a reason they are called the greatest generation.(nm) - DHighlander KC - 2/19 20:16:44
          because they called themselves that (nm) - pickle MU - 2/19 20:21:56
               Tom Brokaw - Alferd Packer MU - 2/19 21:13:08
                    That doesn't fit what pickle has been told by his - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/19 21:14:41
                         I read the book. - Alferd Packer MU - 2/19 21:49:26
                         Pickle is wetting himself here. His economic theories - MUTGR MU - 2/19 21:20:52
               RE: because they called themselves that (nm) - Fred G. Sanford USA - 2/19 20:46:14
               No, it was someone else. nm. - MUTGR MU - 2/19 20:41:31
               Shut up, sh*thead(nm) - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/19 20:25:42
                    grow up, Tigrrr (nm) - pickle MU - 2/19 20:35:32
                         Go be an ass somewhere else(nm) - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/19 20:44:31
                              look at your behavior (nm) - pickle MU - 2/19 20:54:42
                                   Eat sh*t and die - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/19 21:06:06
                                        proving my point (nm) - pickle MU - 2/19 21:26:11
                                             You are a pr*ck. Go troll someplace else.(nm) - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/19 21:34:13
                                                  keep proving my point (nm) - pickle MU - 2/19 21:36:01
                                                       Whatever dude - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/19 21:38:24
                                                            again, look at your behavior (nm) - pickle MU - 2/19 21:44:57
                                                                 Meh....I am not the one repeatedly acting like an ass(nm) - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/19 21:46:52
                                                                      you should look at your behavior - pickle MU - 2/19 21:51:46
                                                                           Fvck you, pickle(nm) - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/19 22:01:58
                                                                                keep proving my point, Tigrrrr (nm) - pickle MU - 2/19 22:08:27
                                                                                     You suck, pickle. - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/20 07:14:58
                                                                                          You keep proving my point (nm) - pickle MU - 2/20 07:27:33
                                                                                               Are you not entertained? - Tigrrrr! MU - 2/20 08:06:28
                                                                                                    Look at your behavior (nm) - pickle MU - 2/20 08:32:44




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