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Originally Posted by daepp
That's very cool.
It's apropos of nothing, but I've heard it said JFK held the honor of being the captain of the only US warship sunk by ramming. And it was a horrid to boot!
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Those were tough, tough times..ole Grand Dad went to work for Henry in the Rouge as a Speciality Mold Maker back in 1916..to 1959. Grand Dad was a very out spoken PRO UNION type O guy which was also known as being a "RED" , who at some point got Black Balled by Ford and had to move to Conniticut to find work with a wife and 3 young kids to feed. Now THAT is standing up for what one believes in.
First cozin John was also sympatico to Grand Dad's Commie beliefs and after the Big Un worked at the Tank Plant in Detroit where he got into trouble with the House of Un Americano Activities...but JFK wrote a letter saying that he knew cozin John as he served with him during the Big Un..and that he was a loyal American.
So every pin headed Liberal on this Board don't know nothin about bein a real progressive Liberal. You Boyz just talk the talk that amounts to a fart in the wind. Thats why I can listen to an Obama and hear the bunkum.
Grand Dad believed in hard work and STRESSED EDUCATION as the means of getting out being a factory worker and having a better life. He never wanted his kids to have to work in the Auto plants as he did. Grand Dad told the ole man and me when we was kids, "That they can take everything you have away from you except what you have in your head," eg knowledge.
Grand Dad came to America when he was 16 years old, didn't know English nor have an education and was stuck in a factory job because he had family responsibilities. So those old time Germans, Poles and Russian guys used to drink and fight on their days off to relieve the tension and bordom of having dead end jobs..that they were trapped in.
So the ole man started work when he was 12 years old, selling newspapers after school. Before that he sold sandwiches that grand ma made...