The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Po Valley Campaign - Italy 1945 - Jan. 8th, 2004

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[SAMWolf]

Morning Snippy. Sorry for the long one again, but I put this one off as long as I could.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks E.G.C. MAybe it's a fix for autoupdate? I can dream.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Aeronaut. Nice graphic today, you going stealth on us?

[SAMWolf]

Morning Mayor. Got enough rain last night to cover everything with a new layer of ice this morning. :-(

[Aeronaut]

Nice graphic today, you going stealth on us?

If you can read this, I guess not. Otherwise yes, I am.

[SAMWolf]

For what was considered a "secondary theatre" it was a miserable place to have to fight. So much for Churchill's "Soft Underbelly", while the Italian Campaign did tie up some German forces, for the most part they were able to hold up larger forces with minimum expenditure.

[SAMWolf]

Before dad went overseas he was with the 2nd Cavalry, so as he said "I took charge of the horse." He also took charge of three German stable orderlies. They looked after the horse (and lived in the barracks and got 3 squares, which they much preferred to a POW camp), and dad rode "Jack" every day.

Morning AnAmericanMother, Thanks for sharing about your dad.

I thank him for his service.

That last part is so typical GI, they always find a way to make the best out of a bad situation. You just gave me an idea for thread, I'll have to see what I can find out there on the subject.

[The Mayor]

Ice is always nice, it's pretty < /sarcasm>
untill of course there is so much weight that it starts breaking limbs and knocking out power..

[SAMWolf]

1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"

Trillions of dollars of weatlh conficsated from the producers, redistributed to the non-producers, 40 years later and we still have poverty and non-producers demanding more. As a producer, I'm one of the losers in the Socialist "War on Poverty"

[SAMWolf]

She did it in 5th grade, so it's a bit on the simple and straightforward side.

That'll make it even more special, it'll be coming from a child's perspective.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Feather.

[SAMWolf]

HI Darksheare. I'm still iced in, I sure could use those flamethrowers our moms denied us.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Colonel_Flagg. It's sure nice to get a slow quiet day once in a while,isn't it?

[SAMWolf]

My name is Valin, and I'm a bookaolic

LOL. Join the Club, I'm just about out of room on my bookshelves, having to double up the books, works for the paperbacks but my hardcovers are gonna be a problem.

[SAMWolf]

Tagline dispenser. Insert quarter. [[|] Mash button. [button] Enjoy

"I put a quarter in Darksheare's Tagline Dispenser and all I got was this lousy tagline" :-)

[SAMWolf]

Took over my son's puter while he's eating breakfast. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

LOL! Nice comeback!

[SAMWolf]

No power loss yet, but plenty of trees and bushes aren't gonna be looking so good when this is over.

[Colonel_Flagg]

It is. The last two weeks have been brutal. Nice to have a moment to read mail, write, and enjoy life.

[Darksheare]

Yeah, that'd make short work of the ice.
Good luck, it's bad out there I hear.