On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 09:12:39 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 00:14:24 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 22:40:25 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:15:26 -0400,
wrote:

On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 18:25:32 -0400, John H.
wrote:

Finished the 12th episode of the 13-episode 'World War II in Color'. Damn. Hate for it to end. Wets
the appetite for some more WWII documentaris.


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That's about the most lucid and comprehensive documentary on WW2 that
I've ever seen. It was especially meaningful after just watching
"Dunkirk" last week. I also recommend "A Band of Brothers" if you've
never seen it - not nearly as comprehensive but really well done I
thought. B of B was especially meaningful for me because my Dad was
at the Battle of the Bulge. He was a surgeon at the field hospital in
Bastogne that was featured in one of the episodes (101st Airborne). I
still get choked up thinking about the hardships those guys endured.

Yeah my dad had a souvenir from the BoB too.
One of 2.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Purple%20Heart.jpg
This and the CIB were the ones he was most proud of. The rest of his
ribbons were for just being somewhere according to him.


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Nice, hope he wasn't injured too badly.

If he was in the 101st Airborne he might have also gotten one of the
silver cups made from melted silverware liberated from Hitler's
private dining room in his "Eagle's Nest" atop Kehlstein Mountain near
Berchtesgaden, Bavaria.

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Have you been up there? The bus ride up the mountain is one of the scariest I've ever been on. I
made the mistake of sitting on the right side by a window. Very often I couldn't see the road we
were on, only about a long drop!

You don't have to go all the way to Germany for that ride,. Roads like
that are all over the west. We seek them out.
Although it is a multi lane highway the "million dollar highway" in
western Colorado is an interesting ride. They could have spent 2
million and put in some guard rails tho. ;-)
You can also take Iron Mountain road near Mt Rushmore. You get to
share that one lane road with logging trucks.
Real spooky is the back road out of Naz Perez NM is another one lane
road on the side of a mountain where you can't even see the edge of
the road in a car.