RIP

[oldhawg]

Another one goes his way, passed away this morning.

As a seventeen year old from the rural southwest community of Corinth near Nashville, he had never traveled farther than Texarkana.  As a nineteen year old he was driving a small Naval Landing Craft, ferrying troops and supplies to the shores at Iwo Jima.  Said there were times when he was scared shitless, but never questioned what he was doing there.

Pa will be missed.

[Flying Razorback]

When my wife once asked me why I would sit down and watch film footage and actual documentaries from World War II from an entire afternoon I told her, "These were all just kids, ordinary kids like me from around the US.  And look at what they were doing..." 

I'll always be in awe of what men like your father were able to accomplish to save the world and their nation.  Ordinary men put in extraordinary situations.  Here's a toast.

[grayhawg]

When my wife once asked me why I would sit down and watch film footage and actual documentaries from World War II from an entire afternoon I told her, "These were all just kids, ordinary kids like me from around the US.  And look at what they were doing..." 

I'll always be in awe of what men like your father were able to accomplish to save the world and their nation.  Ordinary men put in extraordinary situations.  Here's a toast.

Amen to that.

[BPsTheMan]

Another one goes his way, passed away this morning.

As a seventeen year old from the rural southwest community of Corinth near Nashville, he had never traveled farther than Texarkana.  As a nineteen year old he was driving a small Naval Landing Craft, ferrying troops and supplies to the shores at Iwo Jima.  Said there were times when he was scared shitless, but never questioned what he was doing there.

Pa will be missed.

God bless him

[TomasPistola]

God bless him

Amen.

[LSUFan]

Another one goes his way, passed away this morning.

As a seventeen year old from the rural southwest community of Corinth near Nashville, he had never traveled farther than Texarkana.  As a nineteen year old he was driving a small Naval Landing Craft, ferrying troops and supplies to the shores at Iwo Jima.  Said there were times when he was scared shitless, but never questioned what he was doing there.

Pa will be missed.

Make the trek down to New Orleans, you'll see pictures of and read about what your dad actually experienced in Iwo Jima at the National WWII museum. Took me four hours to go through it, I was in absolute awe!
We owe him a tremendous debt.

[SteveInArk]

Sorry for your loss Oldhawg, though inevitable for our parent's generation.  All the WWII family of mine is now gone too ....  they are all missed.  RIP.

[oldhawg]

Make the trek down to New Orleans, you'll see pictures of and read about what your dad actually experienced in Iwo Jima at the National WWII museum. Took me four hours to go through it, I was in absolute awe!
We owe him a tremendous debt.

Thanks.  I think my wife and I will try to make that one of our stops on our summer travels.  It would be a fitting tribute.

[Wildhog]

God bless him

[dj shanon "Notshavin" smeya]

God bless him

[LSUFan]

Thanks.  I think my wife and I will try to make that one of our stops on our summer travels.  It would be a fitting tribute.

>6,000 men a day were killed, some fought for as long as a week with no break, they deficated and urinated in their pants while fighting.

Put that into perspective and compare it to today.