To: cripplecreek
I watched it on the History Channel. I also grew up watching The Twentieth Century series on CBS, narrated by Walter Krankheit (Cronkite). Although it aired in the 50's and 60's, with almost half the Century left to go, it was mostly about Nazi Germany and the War. I also grew up in Queens, where our local deli man and his wife had numbers tattooed on their arms (maybe that's why tattoos never appealed to me) and every adult male between thirty and fifty had served in the War, and the ones who served in actual combat would gladly have foregone the entire experience. My own father who was a cavalryman in the New York National Guard on 12/7/41 and ended the War as a bandsman in Fort Devens, Massachusetts, would have gladly foregone the entire experience.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
My grandfather went into that fight as an agnostic but returned from Europe as a solid Christian.
37 posted on
01/27/2013 6:26:06 AM PST by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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