To: Darkwolf377
Thank You.
My father served in WW2, he was awarded 1 purple heart.
My oldest brother did 2 tours in Vietnam, 2 purple hearts, 1 bronze star with valor.
My next oldest brother did 1 tour, no injury's.
I did 11 months. 1 purple heart.
My daughter recently got out of the Navy. She was off shore in Kuwait during the Liberation.
I was injured when a RPG or Grenade hit about 15ft behind my gun.
Once again thank you.
Was proud to serve.
To: Graycliff
YOU thanking ME???--I'm embarassed! Your whole family deserves our thanks. What a marvelous lineage, of which you are obviously and rightly proud.
I certainly hope you've written at length about your family's military history so your children and nieces and nephews can read it and know the details so they won't be lost over time. Trust me, they will be grateful to you if you put it all down in specific detail. My family has nothing like your history but I regret my father and his brothers never put down their non-combat experience, or even that my grandfather (who came here alone at 14) never wrote about his life.
Be safe.
19 posted on
02/10/2005 10:04:59 AM PST by
Darkwolf377
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