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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Seahawk
One of the gentlemen I used to buy hay from was an Iwo Jima Marine. We only knew this because his son is a friend of ours. He ran a hay farm here in Maryland that had been in his family for generations. He passed last year.
He worked the farm into his 80's...lean old man, eyes as clear as a fall night, rode a tractor like he was in a saddle.
NO ONE, including my USMC buddies who helped me with the hay ever asked, he never offered.
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Same with Uncle Gordon...never talked about it. Now that he's gone, I feel the loss...of course the loss of my uncle, but the loss of never having a clue....My aunt still lives. She told me that Gordon never talked about it...a closed book on the subject.
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