Could you have survived?
Aug 11, 2013 11:10:02 #
SageGrouse wrote:
One that I know of personally.
My uncle, who died on the USS Lexington in the battle of the Coral Sea
My cousin was on the Bataan Death March.
Another family member was at Normady.
I lost a brother in Viet Nam.
My father and grandfatehr were in the Navy.
A great great grandfather was imprisoned in Andersonville.
Which family members of yours were involved?
My uncle, who died on the USS Lexington in the battle of the Coral Sea
My cousin was on the Bataan Death March.
Another family member was at Normady.
I lost a brother in Viet Nam.
My father and grandfatehr were in the Navy.
A great great grandfather was imprisoned in Andersonville.
Which family members of yours were involved?
Sage, when replying to someone please use the 'quote reply' so we will know to whom you are directing your response. We all have made that error at first.
Aug 11, 2013 11:40:44 #
SageGrouse wrote:
One that I know of personally.
My uncle, who died on the USS Lexington in the battle of the Coral Sea
My cousin was on the Bataan Death March.
Another family member was at Normady.
I lost a brother in Viet Nam.
My father and grandfatehr were in the Navy.
A great great grandfather was imprisoned in Andersonville.
Which family members of yours were involved?
My uncle, who died on the USS Lexington in the battle of the Coral Sea
My cousin was on the Bataan Death March.
Another family member was at Normady.
I lost a brother in Viet Nam.
My father and grandfatehr were in the Navy.
A great great grandfather was imprisoned in Andersonville.
Which family members of yours were involved?
I have lost count of the number of ancestors I had in the American Revolution. And at last count at least 5 were in Lees t*****r army. One of my great-grandfathers was buried with military rites according to his obit; I have his World War I draft registration card, but the war ended before he could be drafted, but he was age enough to have served in the war with Spain. Another great-grandfather did serve in World War I and was wounded in the leg which likely lead to a blood clot that likely caused the heart attack that k**led him in the early 1950s. One grandfather was a paratrooper under MacArthur in New Guinea and the Philippines. A great uncle landed on D-Day. And one of my uncles was a sniper in Nam.
Aug 11, 2013 11:41:11 #
Someone says their grandma accepted illegal gifts during wartime from her boss because the boss wanted her to look nice. It doesnt take much to put 2 and 2 together. The implication is that grandma was sleeping around with her boss, and that made her what I said she was.
Aug 11, 2013 11:59:48 #
justk*****gtime wrote:
I have lost count of the number of ancestors I had... (show quote)
Qué paso? You couldn't find a publisher for your fiction, so you decided to it here in this forum?
Aug 11, 2013 12:01:34 #
justk*****gtime wrote:
Someone says their grandma accepted illegal gifts during wartime from her boss because the boss wanted her to look nice. It doesnt take much to put 2 and 2 together. The implication is that grandma was sleeping around with her boss, and that made her what I said she was.
Perhaps your grandmother was sleeping around so you believe all grandmothers do/did it. What a wuss. Hahahaha
Aug 11, 2013 12:48:46 #
justk*****gtime wrote:
I have lost count of the number of ancestors I had... (show quote)
Since you seem to have a family history that has served in the Armed Forces, why have you not served?
Or are you 'just k*****g time' before enlisting? Or perhaps they just don't want your kind.
I wasn't aware there were para's on either New Guinea or in the Philippines. Please elucidate.
Aug 11, 2013 13:14:59 #
justk*****gtime wrote:
I have studied history for as long as I have known how to read (well over 35 years now). My biology degree comes with 40 credit hours in history including a course on World War II. I have seen no documentation to suggest people were able to evade the ration laws because they had money. If anyone had used their wealth in this manner, they would have made themselves social outcasts even if they hadnt been legally prosecuted. World War II was a much different day and age from modern America.
Talking to my advanced age relatives - bartering and black market were rampant - but in this Southern region they helped each other the best they could. They had an old adage " The people down here didn't know they were poor until the government told them!
Aug 11, 2013 13:43:21 #
justk*****gtime wrote:
You obviously are not paying attention. The book... (show quote)
Apologize to AuntiE, NOW !!!!
Aug 11, 2013 13:44:01 #
justk*****gtime wrote:
Someone says their grandma accepted illegal gifts during wartime from her boss because the boss wanted her to look nice. It doesnt take much to put 2 and 2 together. The implication is that grandma was sleeping around with her boss, and that made her what I said she was.
Apologize to AuntiE, NOW !!!!!
Aug 11, 2013 13:44:42 #
justk*****gtime wrote:
I have lost count of the number of ancestors I had... (show quote)
Apologize to AuntiE, NOW !!!!!!
Aug 11, 2013 20:01:37 #
Aug 11, 2013 20:06:54 #
Worried for our children wrote:
Apologize to AuntiE, NOW !!!!!!
He doesn't even know what it means, it isn't in his dictionary, if he even knows how to utilize or use one.
All he knows are vulgarities and swear words. For that, all he requires is living on the streets with the rest of the trash.
Aug 11, 2013 20:47:12 #
Worried for our children wrote:
Apologize to AuntiE, NOW !!!!!!
Requested earlier an apology to Aunti-E but since he refuses just ignore the miserable bastard and perhaps he will get bored and go away with our blessings.
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