SLIP After I missed out on getting into the 10th Mtn I said the heck with it and waited till I was drafted (couple weeks after D-Day). Bill
SLIP Yeh, we used to get together after discharge. Then he moved out West & we weren't big letter writers so we lost touch. Here's a pic of...
In high school in the early '40s there were only 2 kids interested in (snow) skiing (there was no water skiing back then :p): I and George...
Goin' beddy bye y'all ... got some more posts and pics, probably tomorrow. Bill
No, SLIP, can't remember any of their names. (Hey, some days I can't remember my own :D !
We lived in Richmond Hill, Queens, LI -- not the helter-skelter of Manhattan .. so we rarely heard a newsboy hawking the latest headlines. But...
G'evening all: Haven't posted for a couple days 'cause I was digging thru 5 boxes of mementos of the past 80+ years. Came up with some material...
SLIP: No I quit before DRG scheds came in. I'll have to work up the answers to why I quit -- I think I enumerated 4 or 5 big ones. Will make a...
[IMG] Back to Summer 1944: here's one of Mom & me, when she came down to Lawton, OK, to make sure I was OK ('cause I wasn't writing home :eek:.)...
Here's one of my wife Jean & me, down in sunny, warm sweet home Alabama during Easter. [IMG]
Here's another pic: [IMG] In fatigues at Ft. Sill Basic Bill
SLIPDIGIT: Will try to upload a foto (of me in Basic at Ft. Sill, OK, July '44) [IMG] Did it work? (Can't visualize it in Preview.) If it...
SLIPDIGIT: I've got an emergency request :eek: -- I just dug into my mementos papers and found out I wasn't in the 536 .. I was in the 436. Is...
I've got a foto to insert/attach .. could someone walk me thru the protocol? Tnx in advance. Bill
SKIPPER: I guess I didn't make that point clear in my text above. Let me re-quote, with the operative word that I meant to emphasize in fuchsia...
SKIPPER: I see you're locale is France. I've got 2 stories about de Gaulle you'll get a kick out of. The first, in '42, centers around a boyhood...
DGMITCHELL: Tnx for the kudos. Actually, my wife thinks I talk too much, so this is a great opportunity to vent :D. Bill
SKIPPER: Yeah, I went to med school in Bern, Switzerland, in '50-'51 (before transferring back to an American school) -- reason, all of us were...
Hey, Slip -- JW -- tnx again for the prompt response. So I will use "y'all" -- it's one of the reasons I feel at home here in the South. I moved...
A quick message to all: IT MAY SEEM I'M ONE OF THOSE FLAG-WAVING AMERICAN JINOGOISTS. But please be patient .. these early stories are focused on...
