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Reliving history
The Kerrville Daily Times ^
| Nov 10, 2009
| Tom Holden
Posted on 11/10/2009 10:29:43 PM PST by Liberty Valance
On Saturday, visitors to the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg were treated to a re-enactment of some of the weapons, tactics and strategies used to win War World II.
“Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win the war.”
General George S. Patton quotes (American General in World War I and II, 1885-1945)
TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: armyaircorp; heroes; marines; navy
Happy Memorial Day!
To: Liberty Valance
Huzzah for Harlingen Texas, home of the Original monument to the raising of the Flag at Iwo Jima. (the one in Arlington Virgina is a copy!)
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Brave man on the flamethrower. It takes a special breed of man who will volunteer to strap a Pressurized tank of gas and charge a pillbox.
And all those who fought in that war are the greatest.
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11/21/2009 3:37:29 PM PST
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Yorlik803
(better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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