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1 posted on 09/15/2008 6:13:37 AM PDT by 7thson
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That’s nice.


2 posted on 09/15/2008 6:16:17 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Our Mamma beats your Obama)
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To: 7thson

There are fewer and fewer...


3 posted on 09/15/2008 6:21:05 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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I was fortunate to be raised around that generation and I, even as a young knucklehead spud, always appreciated having the opportunity to share their stories and presence.

Its a treasure of life.


4 posted on 09/15/2008 6:23:55 AM PDT by Tainan (Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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To: 7thson

Awesome. A few of my pop’s Korean War veteran buddies are also WWII vets. Great stories. To call this the Greatest Generation is truly an understatement. I had the chance to talk with a fella who was also at Normandy. Fascinating.


5 posted on 09/15/2008 6:26:49 AM PDT by fleagle ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill)
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To: 7thson

In 1985 I had the great fortune to sit down and talk with Jimmy Doolittle for about an hour at his home in Carmel, CA.

Before talking to me and a friend (we were currently attending the Defense Language Institute at Monterey) he showed us around his home. I’ll never forget he had a picture on the wall of Ronald Reagan giving General Doolittle his fourth star.

It was truly a once in a lifetime experience.


7 posted on 09/15/2008 6:37:06 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Amazing how Obama, Rangel, Biden and Dodd all got killer mortgage rates and below cost property.)
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Just as an aside, without trying to stir up controversy, my grandfather fought in the Third Army and thought Patton was a moron. He claims the movie representation of him is Hollywood BS. Just a different view from another Vet.


9 posted on 09/15/2008 6:39:13 AM PDT by thefrankbaum (Ad maiorem Dei gloriam)
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Any chance of getting together with him again for an interview to put up n Youtube for all to see?


14 posted on 09/15/2008 7:19:38 AM PDT by taildragger (The Answer is Fred Thompson, I do not care what the question is.....)
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My dad is a WW2 Navy vet. He served in the Pacific on board the USS White Plains.


16 posted on 09/15/2008 7:31:01 AM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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23 posted on 09/19/2008 2:37:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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Any idea what unit or division he was in?


33 posted on 09/19/2008 5:25:27 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (Say Cheese.)
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