Hey, guys, ------ "back from the dead" :dance4: Actually I'm back to tell you who that guy I pseudonym'd with "Charlie" --- the guy with PTSD...
POPPY: Hi! Yeah, when I ck out the daily news --- wars, GOM oil spill, politicians doing their thing, what's happening to the America I grew up...
Stuka87: You're welcome. BTW, with each passing year it becomes more obvious to me that (conventional) warfare no longer solves anything ......
Jack: Yeah, I'm a bit fuzzy on Hirohito/Tojo. Re "the cleansing of history" read my post above, a few minutes ago :(. Regards, Bill
Tnx for the good words, Falcon. You know when I first seriously contemplated starting this thread I had a weird thing happen to me -- I couldn't...
POPPY: Greetings to Canada, Poppy (I spent one of the best years in my life living in BC from '92 to '93). Interesting what you say about the...
Hey, Jack, and greetings to you "old man." Have read your thread -- appreciate you donating your first-hand experience of WW2. Although it won't...
SLIP Just re-reading the thread, Jeff, and I think I need to comment further on that "civilian" thing. My point was really that the Peaceniks...
SLIP: Well, in my post above I was just reliving the frustration of not making it into Muskogee on 5/8/45 ..... and I got mad at this lady...
SKIP Worse was knowing what else they were doing with the ladies besides dancing :mad: ! Bill
OK, can squeeze out another little mini-story. Early May '45, Camp Gruber, OK. We were all getting feeling pretty cheery because we knew the ETO...
SKIP As Gen'l Patton said, "You don't want to be a hero and die for your country ... you want to make the poor basta*d on the other side become...
CAN'T RESIST .. HAVE TO POST MY LATEST TOY, SPAD XIII, 13" WINGSPAN, FLEW IT THIS MORNING. YEAH, BOY!! :D. [ATTACH] Bill
WAR AND PEACE This title is far from original .. been the subject of many a tome, since Tolstoy's epic 150 years ago. Time to re-visit it....
SLIP Sounds like you're in the healthcare field. What's your racket -- doc? therapist? Technician? Bill
I THINK THIS WILL BE MY NEXT-TO-LAST POST: I recently read, I think in Barry Zwicker's "Tower of Deception" - a detailed story supporting his...
TWO STORIES INVOLVING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: First a little history. The King James version of the Scriptures includes the Commandment, "Thou...
THE VET WHO WOULD NEVER TALK ABOUT HIS TOUR: Back in the mid-80s, my second wife and I, and her family used to spend a couple weeks every summer...
MY FIELD ARTILLERY "DOUBLE IMAGE": Back in 1980, after I converted to Christianity, a church member and I were making monthly Sunday visits to...
