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To: VOA

LOL is ok ...I get it.
Many of that day at least in my experience did not tell the tales nor would talk about what they had experienced. They focused on the victory and what it meant for the world and were proud of the fact they played in their terms ...a small part in making it happen.
Those were MEN. Our job is to make them live on.
I learned alot tonight..things I never knew. I am looking forward to the next installment.


164 posted on 09/23/2007 7:47:28 PM PDT by donnab
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To: donnab

“Those were MEN.”

I knew one. But really didn’t know ALL about him.
Jack McNeice, a member of an elite fraternity: walked out of
four combat jumps over WWII Europe.
He was a postal carrier and I attended church with him and his kids
(my age) when I was growing up.

Maybe when I was about 16, someone tried to tell me that “Mr. McNeice”
had been a romping, stomping paratrooper in WWII. I simply refused to
believe it...until I saw his name and address in one of the Cornelius Ryan
books (”A Bridge Too Far”?) and his home city, as an interviewee.

Mr. McNeice only made any sort of public comment about his past to
Guard members that were on their way to Iraq for Gulf War I.

His story in in this book:

FILTHY THIRTEEN: From the Dustbowl to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest -
The True Story of the101st Airborne’s Most Legendary Squad of Combat Paratroopers
by Richard Killblane

http://www.amazon.com/FILTHY-THIRTEEN-Airbornes-Legendary-Paratroopers/dp/1932033467/ref=sr_1_1/104-0608994-6266314?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190602461&sr=8-1


179 posted on 09/23/2007 8:01:25 PM PDT by VOA
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