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Originally Posted by ODDJOB UNO
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!
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.
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Your father, and his mates, have my eternal respect and thanks. Ditto for Soterik and Fritter
My kids know who to thank too, and so will their kids.
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(As for) Michael Moore:Calling that lying liberal POS propaganda a documentary is like calling PARF the library of congress.
I knew it would happen, just not so soon...........
Last edited by aap1966; 04-27-2010 at 12:13 PM..
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