Makes sick seeing these fools walk around in Crocs and sandals with perfect nails,....just creating more spinless punks
Most of these young punks look at today as just another day off from work, if they even have a job. They have no clue and don’t want to know.
We had a customer a few years ago. He was a WW2 vet. He told me that the day after Pearl Harbor, he went to the army recruiting center to join and fight. The army sent him home, and wouldn’t let him join because he was 16. He went home, upset because he was denied. The following day, he returned to the recruiting office with his mom, who signed the papers so he could join! Try to imagine that scenario today….
My grandpa didn't meet the weight requirement,..he went to the market around the corner and eat a whole bunch of bananas then went back across the scales at 128 3 over the 125 minimum,..that's a damn man,..was gunner on two different ships and cam home with 3 purple hearts,..my great uncle went in at 14 changed the date in the family bible,..was one of the survivors on the USS Indianapolis,...floated for 4 days watching his comrades getting eat by sharks,..that's a damn man
I killed a sh** load of these for sport and trophies. I often thought of the Indy when I put the 12 gauge between their eyes, or the 10” knife through their gills.
My pop told me stories of Jr telling him when he was kid of how the screaming lasted all night,..an how in the morning the men beside him would be floating bitten in half or just gone
How some just give up from being injured and would just cut themselves and float away to lure the sharks
I had one Grandfather on my paternal side, the one I am named after, who fought in WW1. He wouldn't talk about what the war was like, just said no, have some cake (He was a Master Pastry Chef). My Grandfather on my Mom's side left his wife and 13 children on a mink farm to fight. He served in the RCASC (Royal Canadian Army Service Corps) and was wounded and left permanently disabled. He came home and found the Catholic Church had taken away his kids from his wife and fostered them out. Some were ever adopted out. We never found his youngest daughter. He stayed around for 3 years and in 1948, committed suicide. He had to be buried in a United graveyard as they would not let him be buried in a Catholic graveyard. Today, he would have been diagnosed with PTSD. I found out about 5 years ago that he didn't have a headstone and so I started to work with the Last Post Fund to supply a military headstone. After 4 years of back and forth, they finally placed his headstone. This is how I found out he was a Lance Corporal. I am very proud of my family and wish I could have met him. All the people who fought for the allies in these wars were heroes. May they all rest in peace,
Growing up we had a guy that worked on our farm that was on the USS Atlanta, got sunk on Dec 13th 1942 at Guadalcanal, mostly by friendly fire from the USS San Francisco. He floated ashore on a shell casing. He had enlisted on the 13th of Dec1941, he also ate Bananas to make the min weight (per another post). He had some tough stories and the war fueled decades of issues with alcoholism. He was very proud of his service but not very interested in making it seem heroic. Quite the opposite. He said that he did what he was told and was lucky enough to survive. He would have been happy to have never had to go as he thought is was an awful waste of lives, on both sides. I think of him today because it’s not just the folks that don’t come back that pay a price.
Say it loud and proud Hugger!! My Dad was a WW2 top turret gunner, B24, got shot down over IIRC Austria, I once asked him “what was going thru your mind knowing you were going to crash?” He replied “Eh, we’re going down” they were taken prisoner and were in a POW camp till the American tanks plowed the fencing down at the end of the war, then he spent time stateside in the VA hospital in Brecksville Ohio for TB. THATS my hero!! Not a sports figure or movie star, guys with BALLS! Yes some cried, most were scared, but they did a job without hesitation! Guys that wear camouflage shirts and pants walking around stores think they look baaaadass, POSERS!!
