Re: O.T. kids say the darndest things


<handgunner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My Dad passed away at age 83. Being a WWII and Korean War vet he was
buried at the Veterans Cemetery complete with honor guard and 21 gun
salute. My little nephew picked up a baggie full of the fired shell
casings as souvenirs. A neighbor lady saw him playing with them and
asked him what he had there, he told her they were the "bullets from my
grandpa's firing squad." Well Dad was an ornery old cuss, but they
never gave him the firing squad.


My dad was a war hero (twice) but I never knew it until I happend to find
the newspaper clippings my mom had put away. Twice during WWII, a plane he
in was crash landed and burned and both times he want back into the burning
plane several times to pull out injured crew members. He also saved a man
from drowning, but he never talked about any of that or bragged on himself,
because he thought that was what anyone else would have done in his place.
To him, being a hero came naturally, he did it without thinking about the
risk he was taking, he just knew that others needed his help. Today would
have been his 89th birthday and tomorrow is Fathers Day, I really miss him.


.

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