My dad would never talk about the war. I was born in 1942, while he was stationed here. He told me that he went to visit his father at the VA hospital in Westwood, California to tell him about my birth and when he got home, his dad had died. My grandfather had served with Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. May they both rest in peace, Dear Lord!
Yea, when I listen to my little grey haired (82 years old) Mom today, all these decades later, she still tells her stories of WWII and being the second best welder at Richmond shipyard with great pride.
I have B&W pics of a little teenaged girl in her coveralls from this period. It’s hard for me to imagine that is her.
She also had two brothers in WWII, one in the Navy and one Army. The uncle in the Army was career, did time in WWII, Korea and Vietnam.
I used to be at Grandma’s house (their Mom) and would pull out the boxes of pictures she had. She had a black and white snapshot of Mussolini and his mistress laying on the ground with nooses around their necks. I am not kidding.
I asked her once who it was (it was a gruesome photo). She just said her son sent it to her, and she knew it was Mussolini. I suspect he bought it off an Italian after the Allied forces went into there.
“hehehe — My Mom left the hills of Western Tenn with he Sister to work in a Naval Ammunition factory. All the same things she did and experienced as well.”
Well, SandRat, we east Tennesseans don’t call them hills, but refer to them little bumps over in west Tennessee as “rolling landscape.”
But I fish over there a lot (Kentucky Lake) and I can tell you, those folks are the salt of the earth, some of the finest. So, I can see your Mama marching off to the “War on the Front” here.
God, we sure need some more Americans like these were. I just hung up the phone from my friend who used my oven to bake a LOT of cookies and banana bread to send to Afghanistan.
She is in Nashville now, and kept me on the phone a LONG time. She’s a lot younger than me.
We have been talking about the outstanding men in far away places defending us, she happens to be in love with one of them.
I have tried to explain to her that we also have to fight this war here in the U.S. Our efforts are important too.
Our mission is the same as my Mom’s and your Mom’s. But the tactics differ from those days. We have to WRITE our congressmen and women, hold their soft little spoiled feet to the fire, and RAISE HELL with them.
I do this, aggravate the *** out my elected officials, threaten to organize parties to go door to door to educate the masses here about their voting history. I also went to the first Gathering of Eagles counter march in D.C. in March 2007.
SHucks, she wants to go to a Code Pinko counter demonstration now. Education is a major weapon. We dang sure won’t learn the facts/truth from the MSM.
Thank the Lord for the Internet. There’s a lot more patriots than idjotits (deliberate misppelled) in this country, and a free flow of information is vital to freedom.