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To: unkus
I'm sorry to hear your dad has passed.....God bless him.

What a small world indeed!----that's exactly (as far as I know) what dad did.....in one of his wartime letters, he mentioned being a guard on the supply trains...

..and he had a funny story about a monkey stealing things on the train.

Thanks for this wonderful information.....they might very well have known each other.

Dad also spent some time in the mountain hospital after eating a macaroon cookie from a street vender (they were told not to)...and getting a horrible case of dysentery.

To this day, he will not touch a macaroon cookie.

146 posted on 12/18/2011 3:19:21 PM PST by Guenevere (....We press on.....)
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To: Guenevere

Dad mentioned monkeys on the trains, too!! We were little and I know he added that for our amusement.

And Dad got dysentary, too. I think most of them did.

Thanks so much. I’d bet they did know each other.

Did your dad ever mention Mules used for packing equipment?

God bless them all.


147 posted on 12/18/2011 3:32:31 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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