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Posted on 11/10/2025 6:00:40 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
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Honor those who served....our Veterans.
Thank those currently serving....our Military.
NEVER forget those fallen in the line of duty…our Heroes.
And please, maintain the distinctions!
I'm a US Army Vietnam Veteran!
Good evening and thank you lightman!
Thank YOU PROCON!
Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
Happy Veterans Day!
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We are indebted to you for your sacrifices for our Freedom.
Howdy and thank you radu!
*HUGS*
Good evening luvie, thank you!
Howdy, lauren. *Hugz*
Hope all’s well own your way. Staying warm this evening?
Happy Days Are Here Again--Ben Selvin, with the Crooners (1930)
| Howdy, lauren! Thank you for reminding us of who we should be honoring and saluting tonight! We love our vets!! God bless them every one! |
Howdy, PRO.
Many thanks for your service.
Any events going on tomorrow you plan to attend?
Doing great thanks and I hope you are as well.
Pretty darned chilly this evening, but not to worry, it will be back in the 80’s by Thursday!
Have a terrific Tuesday!
*HUGS*
Great story Fiji Hill, thank you!
My Dream of the Big Parade--Billy Murray with the Peerless Quartet (1926)
Howdy, luvie.
Did it feel real good to sleep in this morning? If you say no, I’ll know you’re lyin’. LOL
At the moment, I wouldn’t mind some of your upcoming 80s. LOL It’s been 31 degrees here the past several hours and the high was only 34, briefly.
I’ll have to settle for the low 70s we’ll have this weekend. Just have to get there!
This is part of an article from the Hondo Anvil Herald (my hometown paper - Hondo, TX) that came out this week. It is about the man whom one of our AL posts is named for:
AGUINALDO PRUNEDA earned his place in Medina County military history a generation after Jones, Weiss and Wurzbach. A native of Hondo, he enlisted in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and became a coxswain aboard the USS Borie, an aging 1920s-era destroyer that was pressed into service to guard Atlantic supply convoys against a deadly network of German submarines.
On a chilly and overcast Halloween night in 1943, the Borie engaged U-405 amid frigid waters and 40-foot waves, in a shipboard fight to the finish that rivaled the swashbuckling days of John Paul Jones.
An article by Howard R. Simkin in the U.S. Naval Institute magazine recounts the story of the overnight duel in which U.S. and German sailors fought each other with torpedoes, depth charges, deck guns, rifles, pistols and even thrown knives.
After damaging one U-boat with depth charges, the Borie found itself being stalked by a second sub. The two vessels traded torpedoes and depth charges; the Borie was faster, but U-405 was more maneuverable. Eventually, Borie’s 30-year-old commander set his ship on a collision course, aiming to split the U-boat in two. But the submarine’s skipper turned so rapidly that the old destroyer struck it at a 30-degree angle, then rode a wave over the top of the surfaced sub, and the two were locked together. German gunners sprang to the deck to aim the sub’s deck gun pointblank at the hulking destroyer. Meanwhile, Borie’s powerful guns couldn’t be pointed downward far enough to hit the submarine. Instead, sailors along her port rail shot at the sub’s exposed deck gun crew with automatic rifles, shotguns and pistols. One sailor even threw a knife that wounded a German crewman. All the while, the old destroyer, damaged in the original collision, was leaking badly.
The trapped sub managed to pull loose and tried to escape while the destroyer, despite flooding engine rooms, chased it all night in high seas and cold winds.
The U-boat surrendered on Nov. 1, but before any prisoners could be brought aboard, the captain of the sinking Borie gave the abandon-ship order. A U.S. Navy vessel pulled alongside, but many German crew members and more than two dozen of the Borie’s exhausted sailors drowned trying to climb aboard.
Coxswain Pruneda was among those lost. His body was not recovered, but his name is memorialized on a naval war monument in Tunisia, and also in the Oak Wood Cemetery in Hondo. He was awarded the Purple Heart.
When World War II veterans founded a new American Legion post in Hondo, they adopted Aguinaldo Pruneda’s name in honor of his sacrifice, his service and his participation in an epic World War II sea battle.
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