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To: Snickersnee
My father and his buddy were sitting on a fallen tree during the Guadalcanal Campaign in 1942 when they were knocked off backwards. My dad told told me the story that they did not know what they were hit with until they realized that it was a powerful earthquake rather than Jap artillery.
49 posted on 01/03/2010 6:15:25 PM PST by Wiggins
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To: Wiggins

Is your father still alive?


59 posted on 01/04/2010 7:11:05 AM PST by painter (No wonder democrats don't mind taxes.THEY DON'T PAY THEM !)
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