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To: centexan

http://www.kwanah.com/txmilmus/36division/archives/waskow/appendb.htm

Interesting article about Riley Tidwell's homecoming. He was the one who brought my Uncle's body down the mountain and the article is about what happened to him afterwards. He was not aware of the article but eventually toured with Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum.


22 posted on 05/30/2005 5:31:35 PM PDT by centexan (God bless our troops)
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To: centexan

Thanks for your posts.

Riley Tidwell.

And about the little bag of sand. That was when the Germans were pushing us back on the beaches at Salerno. One of the boys had a little old Bull Durham full of sand that he'd brought from home with him. The Germans had us just about pushed into the water there on Salerno, and he just poured that little old bag of sand out on the beach, and said, "Now, we ain't going on no farther back than this. This is Texas."

Oooorah!


23 posted on 05/30/2005 5:49:57 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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