Oscar Glomb, shown before going overseas to fight in World War II, was wounded in Italy, where he lost his dog tags and other personal items, and sent home to Texas to recover
Oscar Glomb, shown before going overseas to fight in World War II, was wounded in Italy, where he lost his dog tags and other personal items, and sent home to Texas to recover
Praise for the Italian gentleman who made the find then tracked down the family.
Amazingly cool story..thanks!
Awesome story on this Memorial Day. God bless America’s
Greatest Generation and all those that came before and after.
Names On The Wall:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bynVL4XezXg
Memorial Tribute 2002:
Hanoi Taxi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BM09bxf3Ng
Returning POWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irMa2eO41Z4
It’s amazing how much stuff gets left lying around after war.
A forest was cut down and bulldozed for a development of townhouses across the street from my old office in Fairfax, VA. It was part of the battleground of the Battle of Ox Hill/Chantilly. I found a fired minie ball that had struck something soft, fallen to the ground and looked like it got stepped on. Looking up the battle maps, my friend and I were able to make a pretty good educated guess what northern regiment fired it at which southern unit. A guy with a metal detector came out, and was finding little piles of unfired bullets all clustered together. We figured it was probably where someone took a hit and went down and stuff fell out of their pouches. It was pretty easy to trace where things were happening by locating little finds like that.
Find of the day was a cap regimental(?) number insignia fragment by the metal detector guy.
What a terrific Memorial Day post. Does my heart good to know that some Europeans still appreciate and honor the efforts and sacrifices of our American heroes.
btt
What a wonderful story! I sure hope, though, that he got the chance to talk to a priest before he died, and make a good Confession, so that his mind would have been put to rest about the young men he killed in the war. Sounds like he needed to be reassured that he would be forgiven. All he had to do was ask that of God, and in Confession, it would have meant more to Oscar, not to God.