Posted on 07/04/2018 3:24:22 PM PDT by carlo3b
Beautiful post.
Happy Independence Day!
That IS a rich life of Americana!
God Bless!
I have used you as an example of what it means to grow up poor, and how poor “in them days” is nothing like “poor” today. I have also used you as an example of a man that has done great things but remained (mostly) very humble about them.
Thank you for your story, and I pray that your health improves so you can grace us with recipes again during the holidays.
Many blessings!
Thanks carlo3b.
Thank you for writing this. It made my Forth of July all the more enjoyable.
I wish I were able to build our border with the help of folks like you. We should all go down to the border and help ICE and our other fellow Americans defend this country from its enemies foreign and domestic.
God Bless.
This was pretty much all of America in the 1950s
Carlo,
I am a Vietnam veteran...
I am a proud American...
few things bring tears to my eyes and cause the hair on my arms to stand...
Your story from your life and what it means to you did just that...
Thank you for serving our country and thank you for this wonderful post...
Thank you for sharing. Misty screen alert.
Wonderful. Thank you.
You made me tear up.
Many blessings to you and yours.
Beautiful post!
You made my day.
I was thinking of my Father, a WWII Navy Vet who passed away in late 2016 at the age of 93.
He only told me snippets from the time he served in the South Pacific, not making much of a big deal about it.
He told me the closest he came to dying there was when the Captain of the Oceangoing Tug he was assigned to (one of four Ships he served on during the War) decided that he would take it upon himself (without Orders) to head toward Shore to tow a Disabled Landing Craft while there were still others heading in full of Marines. I believe it was off Iwo Jima.
As they headed in a Destroyer pulled up next the Tug and with Loudspeakers blaring told the Tug Captain that he had better turn around immediately before they blasted his Ship out of the water. My Father told me he thought that was it for him. Talk about Friendly Fire.
Well, after his death I found a few Photos, one with my grinning 21 Year Old Father standing in front of Bulkhead. On that Bulkhead were a half dozen painted Japanese Kamikaze Zeros that the Ship, I think a Destroyer he was on for a while, had shot out of the sky. He never mentioned that little episode.
On one occasion he did mention surviving the deadly Typhoon that sunk a bunch of our Ships though. He said even the old Sea Salts were as green as could be riding that one out.
Anyway, thanks for jarring my memory and Happy Fourth of July to all my FReeper Family.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful story, Carlo. I read it twice and loved it both times.
Beautiful. Our constitution is so perfect, it must have been divinely inspired.
Thank you my friend for your kind words.. My story isn’t so much different than most folks in my age range.. GOD BLESS AMERICA
Wow! Wrapped up a beautiful Independence Day the day on the beach and just read this; I now have tears down my eye’s wishing our country returns to those days one parent at a time - thanks!
My eyes are leaking and I’ve miss your cooking posts much. Your cook book was my favorite thing of FR!
Watching “Fourth of July at the White House” Think they’re gonna be leaking for awhile.
Hope everyone gets a chance to read Carlo3b’s story. It is a wonderful tribute on this Independence Day.
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