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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

4 posted on 06/06/2013 3:29:18 PM PDT by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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To: mrmeyer

Drats...that pic..he is cut off...you can see the sliver of his ear in the right edge of the pic.

Thanks for trying.


7 posted on 06/06/2013 3:37:20 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (It is going to be Foot to Ass combat on election day....my foot and a Rat's ass.)
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I take it back...pic loaded wrong the first time...he is the head immediately to the left of the guy in helmet wearing the number twenty three.

His Glider Infantry regiment ended up only semding two gliders full of men in on D-Day to support anti tank operations and the rest went in on landing craft the afternoon of day two. This was supposedly due to running out of planes to tow gliders.

He was injured by shrapnel in France (I think the evening of day 2 or the morning of day 3.

He also landed during Market Garden.

He suffered a lot from his war experiences and watching the Iraq War on the news every day really took a toll on him.


11 posted on 06/06/2013 3:43:42 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (It is going to be Foot to Ass combat on election day....my foot and a Rat's ass.)
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