Posted on 07/07/2022 10:28:41 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper
(CNN)Bradford Clark Freeman, believed to be the last surviving original member of the historic World War II parachute infantry regiment of the US Army known as Easy Company, died Sunday in Columbus, Mississippi. He was 97.
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We are loosing them too fast. Won’t be many more years before the last US WWII vet passes.
I remember seeing WWI vets in parades when I was a kid. WWII vets were our dads.
Knew an old timer 30 years ago who told me when he was a little boy his father would take him along to the “old soldiers home” to visit Confederate veterans.
RIP.
Thank you. sir. Hand salute.
RIP
“May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and
until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.”
Rest in peace, Sir. And thank you for your service to our great country.
loosing
The word is lose. L O S E
Currahee....soldier
Maybe it’s in reference to the leucine of free electrons of energy?
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“Voice texting” - I think it’s pretty common around here.
There are still quite a few old timer's alive who as children met Civil War veterans. Figure an 18 year old (some were as young as 10) in 1865 was born in 1847. Those 18 year old's in 1865 would have been in their 90's between 1937-1947. A person born in 1937 and had chance to meet some of those veterans would now be 85.
Many baby boomers had the chance to meet former slaves since the youngest former slaves were in their 90s between 1955-1965.
Meetings with persons alive during the Wild West era were possible through the early 1990s.
Times have changed and a lot of history has happened in a relatively short period.
As a boy, I was often surprised to learn that many older adults I knew had been in heavy combat in World War II, with the tangible proof being only an old uniform in the back of a closet and a mysterious small box of medals and service papers hidden away. Even to families, they rarely referred to their experience in combat, with details and war stories unspoken.
Only when the father of a longtime friend passed away did his widow and children learn the details of his record and decorations as a bomber pilot in Europe in WW II. In peacetime, he was as a kind and much-respected department store manager, with his obituary the first clue that most had that the man had been repeatedly recognized for heroism in combat.
Similar experience here. On the street where I grew up most dads were either WW2 or Korean war vets. One fellow had taken a german bullet in the shin and had a nasty scar. He was proud of it.
I'm a meticulous speller but my posts here often have grammatical or spelling errors due to the fact that it's so awkward for me to type something out on a laptop or smartphone keyboard. Yes, we have preview mode but usually don't bother it for simple replies.
As well, auto-correct usually works against me.
President John Tyler had a living grandson.
When I was a kid I struck up a friendship with an old man named John who lived across the street. He was anWorld War I combat veteran.
He told me stories about the 40 and 8 transport train cars. That’s all I remember.
The war ended 77 years ago. Of course they are almost all dead.
At 1:40am I don’t really care.
For us, even as boys, the price of freedom was clear. Today, too few Americans seem to recognize or appreciate the hard payment by prior generations that was required to make our sweet life possible.
When my son gave me attitude about white people of the past I pointed out to him that he seemed to like the people he met from the 1800s, to which he went WHAT???
I pointed out to him that some of those old folks who were so sweet and caring when holding him on their lap or cooing at him when he was a toddler were indeed born in the 1800s.
I have a photo of my 6 year old Mom with her great uncle Bob who fought in the misunderstanding. People have asked me from time to time why tempers still flare over it and my answer is because it wasn’t that long ago. Ww11 was really not long ago.
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