The FReeper Foxhole Remembers John J. Briol - Warrior Wednesday - Jan. 15th,2003

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[firewalk]

Thanks for the ping AntiJen

Good morning/afternoon everyone (-:

[sneakypete]

Yikes! Is that your mother? She was a industrial-strength babe!

[SAMWolf]

Sorry sneakypete, no relation at all.

I just posted part of the biography from Mr Briol's site.

[sneakypete]

I read a lot about the Eastern Front. Too bad it's coverage has always been seriously lacking in the U.S.

Buy,rent,or check out from your local library the PBS videoseries,"Russia's War,Blood in the Snow". It's about 10 hours of video and interviews with Russians and Germans who participated in WW-2,and all the film is either Soviet Army or captured German Army film footage that came out of the KGB archives,and had never been seen before in the west. The even interview Stalin's driver. Incredible stuff. I liked it well enough I spent the $69.95 to own it.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the tip Sneakypete. i didn't know about this series. Looks like something for my Father's Day list.

[fatima]

Bump for our Foxhole.

[SAMWolf]

LOL! I knew I should have left that poem for the Poetry Expert to post.

It's one of the few poems I remember from High School.

Nice pic of a B-17G

[sistergoldenhair]

Excellent site.

[larryjohnson]

My Sunday School teacher in Philly was a Mr Green. He had been a B17 side gunner. He was also an assistant Scout Master. All our leaders were vets. They all left deep impressions on me but then I didn't know what they survived to return and do a good deed daily.

[SAMWolf]

Current Military News
Afghan Outback

Mike O'Dowd, a chef at the Outback Steakhouse, Spc. Marc Taylor, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 82nd Airborne Division and Spc. Micha Spry, 3rd Battalion, 229th Aviation, grill steaks in preparation for the Outback Steakhouse dinner Monday. The restaurant chain sent employees and food to Afghanistan this week to provide a little taste of home to service members in Bagram and Kandahar. Preparing fare for so many was such an enormous task that the Outback employees could not conquer it alone — so they enlisted volunteers. Service members helped out with every task — from salting potatoes to grilling steaks on huge smoking grills. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Joe Healy


An Outback employee drops a "bloomin' onion" — the signature dish of Outback Steakhouse — off at a table full of soldiers. “This is so far away from home, and any contact with home is wonderful,” said Chellie Letz, an Outback food technician from Indianapolis, Ind. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Debralee Crankshaw


Billy Matchett, a contract employee of the U.S. government, places a cheesecake on the serving line. Bringing a taste of America is what the program was all about. “I always eat there when I’m at home. It shows a lot of patriotism on their part,” said Lt. Col. David King, a member of the Joint Civil Military Operations Task Force, deployed from Fort Jackson, S.C. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Debralee Crankshaw

[knighthawk]

French towns honour US pilot killed in liberation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/823374/posts

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for posting that story and for the link.

[knighthawk]

At your service!

Without the US I would have lived under a tirant. I won't forget who liberated us!

[The Real Deal]

Thanks for posting that for me Sam. It's wonderful that those two guy's took the time to do what they did. When I was on river boats in Nam, and would see the Marines that had been out in the rice paddy's for thirty days. I would always do what ever I could for them. I could tell be looking at them that had just came back from hell! They all had it much harder than I did. I always had hot food and a warm dry place to sleep. Those guy's were my hero's.

[SAMWolf]

I must confess that I'm not American (not yet anyway) but Dutch

I like that line from your profile page the best. You have a very good profile page and I for one, would sure like to see you become an American Citizen. You have the proper attitude. Was your town liberated by the British and Canadians or the U.S.? I know the Netherlands was mostly in the British/Canadian area of operations.

[SAMWolf]

Your welcome Real Deal. Thanks for giving me that article.

[Light Speed]

Yes Sneaky..the Russian /German battles were off the scale ...battles ranging on fronts over a hundred miles.
Gloves definitely came off for these battles.
German and Soviet pilots would do all they could to steer a damaged plane back to their lines...being captured was a terror that ate thier guts out daily.
Am presently away studying 'Stalingrad'...
One book is written by a U.S. Diplomat in Moscow during the Stalingrad conflict.
It is un believable the deceptions and intrigues being pulled...Churchill most especially...his gambit to seize the Caspian oil fileds with British troops.
Stalin refused Churchill's offer....Churchill screwed Stalin by making sure there were be no second front in 42 or 43.
Prior to Stalingrad....a German line officer's plane went down...he threw his briefcase with maps into the fire of his burning recon plane....then attempted suicide as Russian troops neared.
Hours later..Stavka had the map of the German offensive for Baku and the Caspian oil.
Stalin did nothing..the Germans attacked and went south to the Caspian...huge Russian Armies with over 700 tanks were obliterated in 2 weeks...some battles cost the Russians over 300,000 men in a week.
Hitler refused the intel coming his way of large Russian reserves and tank regiments.
Stalin forbad anyone to withdraw.."Not one foot back"..that included a certain Nikita Krushchev..who Stalin left to be massacred during the opening week at Stalingrad.
Leaders lied and were obsessed in psychotic episodes of rage...they sent millions to their deaths...so many brave men on both sides.

[The Real Deal]

Thanks for the link to your page. It looks like it could take awhile to check it all out. I really like sites with stories about the men and women who have fought for our country.