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riveted to this the past 7 weeks. if you want your gold teeth yanked out by me...........BOTHER ME or CALL ME during the hour show. yes i am hooked .
my dad served 5 years straight in an army eng. battalion(sergeant). basically come off LST under fire and start blowing up jungle to make runway or repair existing runway.
new guinea/biak/luzon for giggles.
5 years with (2) count'em R&R's to OZ and New Zealand. other than that getting his ass shot at/or bombed/or strafed constantly while enjoying the hell out of the mud and rain.
one time they got their 1st shower in 3 months. not 10 minutes after going back to his mash style tent, air raid siren went off, and he hauled ass into a bomb crater full of mud. 500# bomb wasted his tent killed some friends and wasted the showers they just had built. and he was covered in mud and PISSED OFF AS A MOFO!
my mom used to empty fruit cans and fill them with vodka and rum and whiskey and reseal them and ship them over to him.
he HATED the japs until the day he died. when i bought my 1977 datsoon 280-z he about killed me.
he was slated for the invasion of the jap mainland(OP. CORONET) and was never so happy, "actually the happiest day of my LIFE" and i quote when they nuked the hell out of hiroshima and nagasaki.
flat out HATED ANYTHING JAP> hated SAKI hated RICE i mean HATED THEM TO HIS SOUL til the day he died in my arms.
so yes once again spielberg and hanks have me RIVETED to the tube watching this.
and yes there are atrocities in EVERY WAR, dont fool yerself. after getting all yer friends blown away for a few years ALL OF US NO MATTER WHO WE ARE would turn into ANIMALS! including me.
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