I believe a large part of it is the noise they make. You can feel their low pitched sound in your chest as if they have reached inside of you, taken up residence and are now pounding away as your heart and soul.

I too with my uncle...he had been selected as a pilot candidate and had started flight school at the University of Pittsburgh, until the Allies started taking huge casualties and he, and his classmates, were pulled out of flight school and became infantry.

He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and also liberated a concentration camp.

[QUOTE=bugstrider;9148096]I am very privileged to have a great Uncle who is still with us, who was a mechanic on P-47's in the European Theater.

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My grandfather was a SeaBee in WWII.
He was one of the guys who went ashore with the marines on Guadalcanal and worked to repair and keep Henderson field open while under fire.


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My Uncle was Commander of the Seabee's in Vietnam and then later Commander Seabee JP Jones.
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Assumes the addict can read, no?

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Harvest Gold overload.
(could be the name of a band!)

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My good friend David B. Miller (Spfx makeup master) with Robert Englund on the first Friday The 13th. David got the idea for Freddie's makeup after eating and staring at a pepperoni pizza while brainstorming makeup ideas for the film (true story).

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