Amen ! I feel the Same way.
Now we have the Chinese Virus Unleashed upon the world .,Thanks Asia , Once again.
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Amen ! I feel the Same way.
Now we have the Chinese Virus Unleashed upon the world .,Thanks Asia , Once again.
Yikes, I thought digging foxholes in the Georgia clay was rough, they must go through E-tools like crazy!
rapidtrans
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Dad was 18, in a full hip cast, on this day in 41. By the time he was healthy enough he was considered a War Essential working engineering at the Willow Run Plant.
My Bride and I spent a planed month of December for our 25th anniversary in '87 with the 1st 3 weeks in Australia and the last week in Oahu. Neither of us could help from weeping when we stared at the brass wall on the Arizona Monument. Our one and only Japanese car was traded the 1st week of January when we returned home. I came very close to asking some of the Japanese tourist's that were taking pictures of that wall if the had pix of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on their living room walls that ended that war, but it might have started WWIII. Jer
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I actually asked my 10 year if he knew what it was yesterday. He did. Kudos to his mother for the good education she is giving him.
barnfind
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Was stationed at Elmendorf for 3 years. Alaska has a way of making a person feel small in the realm of things, and you ARE a part of the food chain. They are years I wouldn't trade for anything. I recommend a trip when you can. If you like to hunt and fish, there's none better. I took the drive on ferry from Bellingham Washington to Skagway. Bring a tent and sleep on the deck. Then finish the trip by driving the ALCAN. People go there to get away from the world. People up there go out of their way to help one another.
I should of done it when I planned upon retirement from the Army.....
I retired from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland in 1996. My plan back then was to take the summer off and drive north past Niagara Falls and then drive west across entire Canada into Alaska. Hang out in Alaska for a month and then drive south along the west coast into Baja Mexico and then back east to Key West and then back north to Maryland. Well, I already was hired at the (Army Test Center) pending my retirement from the Army. So I retired from the Army one day and was was working as a Military Contractor the next day. I should of told them I could start the new job in 4 months and went on my lap around North America. I'm not too old yet (65) and I could still do most of the trip. A lot of the wilderness hunting and fishing probably won't happen now.
I retired from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland in 1996. My plan back then was to take the summer off and drive north past Niagara Falls and then drive west across entire Canada into Alaska. Hang out in Alaska for a month and then drive south along the west coast into Baja Mexico and then back east to Key West and then back north to Maryland. Well, I already was hired at the (Army Test Center) pending my retirement from the Army. So I retired from the Army one day and was was working as a Military Contractor the next day. I should of told them I could start the new job in 4 months and went on my lap around North America. I'm not too old yet (65) and I could still do most of the trip. A lot of the wilderness hunting and fishing probably won't happen now.
rapidtrans
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update:
I have to add Arlington Cemetery to my list also. Although I was a kid when I last really spent time there in 1966. The Unknown Solder, Eternal Flame and just the mass of white markers was moving. At that time the permanent Kennedy Eternal Flame site was under construction with just the flame and the three grave markers in place.
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Is the Pearl Harbor facility near Honolulu airport? I recall the airforce (I think) base as we landed.
barnfind
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The place that moved me the most of any WWII site was Krakow Poland. Sitting in a gas chamber and walking into the barracks. I swear the surrounding area still has a smell, an unmistakable smell. It's a place I won't ever forget.
3175375
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Robert E Lees house is there too.
rapidtrans
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I believe the entire cemetery was Lee’s property and taken as spoils of war.
His wife owned everything and she was George Washington's adopted step great-grandaughter.
Yes, it's close.
3175375
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I haven’t been to Krakow, but did visit Dachau. Similar experience.
I was stationed minutes from Dachau in Augsburg.
Augsburg celebrated their 2,000 birthday in 1985. Augsburg was founded in 15 B.C.
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