Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
Good evening, radu...any change in the heat?
Kinda warm here, but a nice breeze and clouds coming and going all day.
Roger - Face to face with the Vietnamese officer who killed my friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB3sfITanMc
Comments below the video:
“Most popular apparel of Vietnam Vets was a jacket which on the back said: “When I die I will surely go to Heaven because I’ve already been to Hell.”
“Loved this story. Very moving. I hope no one minds if I share something a little similar. My dad was a medic in WWII fighting in Germany and Italy. After a battle, he went in to attend to the wounded, and came across a German soldier who had his leg blown off but was still alive and conscious. My dad was able to stem his bleeding and stabilize him. My dad was able to do everything else that he needed to do and then went back to check on the German. They began to talk —-the fellow spoke English well. The man said that he dreamed of the war ending and taking his family to Florida and buying an orange grove. Just so happens that my dad had an orange in his nap sack and gave it to the man as the man was carried away as a prisoner. Before that happened he shared his name with the man. Years later my a crate of oranges was delivered by my house where i grew up. Somehow, this man survived, did move to Florida, did buy a grove and became an orange farmer. Every year thereafter we received a wonderful box of oranges with a note that said “Jerry (my Dad’s name) thank you for the orange”. They keep in touch, and on my wedding day, my dad asked me to help him find a phone (this preceded cell phones) because he heard this man’s voice in his head asking for my dad. My dad did find a phone, called this man and the man’s wife answered. She said that the man had died that morning, knew he was dying, and asked the wife to let my father know how grateful he was. Take from this what you will —-i don’t know what it make of it, but if there is a lesson, perhaps it is that fundamentally we are all connected and our natural state is not to be enemies but to be friends. Dad, i miss you a lot every day.”
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