Veterans Day 20/20

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn

Funny is a hard business but you should really be chastising your buddy Molle for violating the spirit of the post.

Adding this on afterwards, I'm not sure what that one clip has to do with anything other than Alan Alda is in it. As for as Alda, he did serve but I'm sure that others did more if this is about actors and their service;
Van Johnson-Navy intelligence
James Stewart-B24 pilot and squadron commander
Clark Gable-tail gunner on a B17
Charles Durning-lost a piece of finger on Omaha beach
Audie Murphy-well, what can you say about the most decorated American soldier of World War II?
Neville Brand- possibly the second most decorated American soldier of World War II

The list goes on but lately this is not the case. Sadly, people today don't even know who these people were or what they did.

wasn't audie murphy in world war I?

[eccieuser9500]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

wasn't audie murphy in world war I?

No. Audie Murphy He was only twenty by the end of dubya dubya too.

You think this Sgt. Mulcahy was an ancestor of Father Mulcahy?

[eccieuser9500]

[eccieuser9500]

[nevergaveitathought]

Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn

dead center, Great uncle with his head seemingly perched on Ike's thumb

i knew the man behind your great uncle

you can see the top of his blond head

he passed away about three years ago buried at ft. sam natl cemetery

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought

i knew the man behind your great uncle

you can see the top of his blond head

he passed away about three years ago buried at ft. sam natl cemetery

cool sweet connections.

barley's and NGIAT's great/grand uncle prolly knew each other.

what are the odds of their grand kids meeting online here?

[nevergaveitathought]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

cool sweet cpnnections.


barley's and NGIAT's great/grand uncle prolly knew each other.



what are the odds of their grand kids meeting online here?

no the guy isn't related to me, i knew him for about the last 10 years of his life

[winn dixie]

Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought

no the guy isn't related to me, i knew him for about the last 10 years of his life

Still though. Pretty cool.

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought

no the guy isn't related to me, i knew him for about the last 10 years of his life

ok, you're not related, but still, this is still cool connections.

[eccieuser9500]

Very.

One last castle more to go.

[the_real_Barleycorn]

Sad, we're losing so many and the younger generation doesn't know or care. I believe we lost the last member of Easy Company (Band of Brothers) last year.
Yep, Army Staff Sergeant Albert Leon Mampre died May 31, 2019.

[eccieuser9500]

Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn

Sad, we're losing so many and the younger generation doesn't know or care. I believe we lost the last member of Easy Company (Band of Brothers) last year.
Yep, Army Staff Sergeant Albert Leon Mampre died May 31, 2019.

It happens with every "passing" generation. This article came through my feed a few days ago.




The man who prosecuted the Nazis at Nuremberg


https://www.thejc.com/news/features/...mberg-1.508254

It seems grimly appropriate that the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials — the moment Nazi evil met some form of comeuppance — is a Jew.

Mr Ferencz told the JC: “Of course the trial could have been done differently. There were many possible ways of dealing with the criminals. The Russians, for example, would have shot them all without trial. It was the Americans who insisted upon giving them as fair a trial as was possible, and we succeeded in doing that.”