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Grandfather fought in North Africa

Posted on: February 19, 2017 at 20:55:20 CT
HandBanana MU
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He did not talk about it, other than something about guarding Italian prisoners. Some things people just don't want to have to re-live.
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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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