*Salutes*
1 posted on
02/27/2011 8:37:35 PM PST by
Mmogamer
To: Mmogamer
My great uncle:
John Franklin Kennedy
Killed September 1918
Battle of St. Mihiel France.
RIP
2 posted on
02/27/2011 8:41:20 PM PST by
9422WMR
(Illegal is not a race.)
To: Mmogamer
Maybe six months ago I read an article that said Mr.Buckles was being considered for a high national honor. Maybe the Medal of Freedom, I’m not sure exactly which one.
Anyway, a federal government spokesman said the award was under consideration. But nothing was done. Fools! Now it is too late. What do they care?
May God be with Mr. Buckles.
3 posted on
02/27/2011 8:44:05 PM PST by
Leaning Right
(Why am I carrying this lantern, you ask. I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: Mmogamer
He was 110What did he die of?
4 posted on
02/27/2011 8:45:30 PM PST by
umgud
To: Mmogamer
Can’t believe Grandpa would be 116 next week!
He did make it to 95 though.
His uniform sits on the upper shelf in this home office.
Did ya know the Army had an Aero-maintence squadron in WWI?
5 posted on
02/27/2011 8:47:02 PM PST by
G Larry
To: Mmogamer
RIP, CPL Buckles. Your nation owes you a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
7 posted on
02/27/2011 8:57:51 PM PST by
wku man
(Still holding my breath, but exhaling a bit after Nov. 2...)
To: Mmogamer
9 posted on
02/27/2011 9:00:49 PM PST by
kalee
(The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: Mmogamer
To: Mmogamer
RIP, Mr. Buckles.
My father was a WWI Navy vet. Were he alive today, he would be 114.
To: Mmogamer
God bless Frank Buckles.
Had an old friend who was a WW1 vet when I was a teenager, taught me about everything I know about carpentry (Old school building and cabinet work).
When I was marking a piece of wood with a pencil to cut, I would always run the pencil against the straight edge a couple of times, finally one day he told me "You're going to cut it with the damn pencil or the saw".
He was a great old guy with a good sense of humor.
To: Mmogamer
Frank Buckles on his 109th birthday.
18 posted on
02/27/2011 9:44:06 PM PST by
Mr. Mojo
("If you're going to shoot, shoot, don't talk." - Tuco)
To: Mmogamer
Wow. The things he must have seen and the history he must have lived...
20 posted on
02/28/2011 12:28:48 AM PST by
Crucial
To: Mmogamer
I can only imagine. and God and the Angels welcome home, Mr. Frank Buckles. Well Done! Mr. Frank Buckles your buddies are right here. Let the celebration begin!
21 posted on
02/28/2011 3:24:56 AM PST by
no-to-illegals
(Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
To: Mmogamer
22 posted on
02/28/2011 3:33:48 AM PST by
Daffynition
( DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
To: Mmogamer
If I may share the last few lines of an Australian soldiers song in tribute here:
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men still answer the call
But as year follows year more old men disappear
Some day no one will march there at all23 posted on
02/28/2011 5:07:12 AM PST by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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