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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:37:11 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:
"DK" wrote in message m... D.Duck wrote: "Vic Smith" wrote in message ... On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:16:24 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote: "Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here wrote in message ... D.Duck wrote: "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... http://www.thetandd.com/articles/200...4512519627.txt Not really up on the progression of MS, but isn't his "recovery" nothing short of miraculous? Fantastic..... John Francis had CP, and for him to progress to his level is nothing short of a miraculous show of personal strength and character. This freakin' old age, I read it and by the time I got here to comment I had MS instead of CP in my feeble mind. You just need a good brat. --Vic On that we can definitely agree. Oh how I long for the Bart Stop. Or the Brat Stop! What's wrong with a good Sheboygan "bart"? Damn it all to hell. This getting old really sucks. Hey, I didn't notice that either. Make that 2 barts. --Vic |
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"Larry" wrote in message ... Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in : http://www.thetandd.com/articles/200...a97aae54512519 627.txt Congratulations. Small world....same newspaper. http://thetandd.com/articles/2005/11...8852350458.txt He's gone now but this was the proudest day of my life. He was my dad. http://thetandd.com/articles/2006/01...9531668428.txt Sorry for your loss. Who is that smiling handsome dude on the right? |
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Wow! right out of Forest Gump. Impressive.
JR On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:30:27 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: http://www.thetandd.com/articles/200...4512519627.txt HOME PAGE: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth -------------------------------------------------- |
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On Jul 15, 6:55*pm, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:30:27 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: http://www.thetandd.com/articles/200...aca97aae545125... That is so cool! Congrats on a good kid and on raising him to value that which is important. |
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"Jim" wrote in
: "Larry" wrote in message ... Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in : http://www.thetandd.com/articles/200...aca97aae545125 19 627.txt Congratulations. Small world....same newspaper. http://thetandd.com/articles/2005/11...6ea38852350458 .txt He's gone now but this was the proudest day of my life. He was my dad. http://thetandd.com/articles/2006/01...6852b953166842 8.txt Sorry for your loss. Who is that smiling handsome dude on the right? Behind Dad? The wharf rat in the ill-fitting suit with the damned crooked tie? Das me! The guy in the cap is from the Purple Heart Society, which is headquartered in Orangeburg, for SC. He was agast when I called him to talk about Dad's case.... They pulled some quick strings to get the award before he died. That story was on the front page of the T&D. They interviewed him for a long time, fascinated at his war stories I'd heard a thousand times before. He didn't figure he was due the award because it was a defective tank grenade that exploded right in front of him on the end of his M1 rifle that blew him away! I'm very lucky to even be here! He was about to fire the grenade when it suddenly exploded. When he was 7 years old, he almost was killed when his father was killed with a rich man he used to keep dogs for brought a brand new 1930 Dodge sedan to their country farm to take them hunting. The new car's brakes failed halfway down a long hill and the car careened off into a rock wall by a creek covered with ice in upstate NY. Both men died instantly. My father, shoved by the crash up under the front seats, crawled with broken limbs to a farm house nearly a mile back up the road in the freezing snow, where the horrified farmer's wife took him in and call the police to check on the men left in the car. By all accounts he should have also died in the crash. The dogs in the back seat of the car all were also killed, the car completely destroyed. My reason wasn't for the grandstanding that went on. Dad was bedridden by then, so I got all dressed up and accepted the award for him from the Army at the Veteran's Day Celebration at the Rose Gardens...then the news guys and presenters followed us to Methodist Home to present it to him in his room, there. We were afraid to surprise him so he knew what was going to happen. He nearly drove the home's nurses nuts waiting for the group to arrive... (c; My father was a very simple man, a factory worker and farmer all his life. He didn't feel he was entitled to the Heart at all. It took a lot of talking by the Purple Heart recipients to convince him to let them work to get his award.....60 years late.... At his funeral, the Army from the post in Columbia sent an honor guard, a bugler that is very hard to find, two soldiers in sharp dress uniforms to present me with his 1st Division flag and the US Flag. A Major read a little speech as representative of the 1st Division, Big Red One commander. What few of my family still alive that were present were most impressed, as was I. It was a total surprise to us all. The major told me he wished he had known about Dad's injuries in WW2 and he would have been treated first class by the 1st Division. Very unfortunate all those years. I buried him with his new medal on his chest...with all his others from the war. He was so proud to serve, a simple private, a nobody. I still have a couple aunts and uncles, but I'm the only one left in my immediate family. I'm next to go! |
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"Larry" wrote in message ... I buried him with his new medal on his chest...with all his others from the war. He was so proud to serve, a simple private, a nobody. Not a nobody. Another member of the greatest generation. Eisboch |
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:30:27 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote: http://www.thetandd.com/articles/200...4512519627.txt Great story, thanks. That is quite an accomplishment. |
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"Larry" wrote in message ... "Jim" wrote in : "Larry" wrote in message ... Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in : http://www.thetandd.com/articles/200...aca97aae545125 19 627.txt Congratulations. Small world....same newspaper. http://thetandd.com/articles/2005/11...6ea38852350458 .txt He's gone now but this was the proudest day of my life. He was my dad. http://thetandd.com/articles/2006/01...6852b953166842 8.txt Sorry for your loss. Who is that smiling handsome dude on the right? Behind Dad? The wharf rat in the ill-fitting suit with the damned crooked tie? Das me! The guy in the cap is from the Purple Heart Society, which is headquartered in Orangeburg, for SC. He was agast when I called him to talk about Dad's case.... They pulled some quick strings to get the award before he died. That story was on the front page of the T&D. They interviewed him for a long time, fascinated at his war stories I'd heard a thousand times before. He didn't figure he was due the award because it was a defective tank grenade that exploded right in front of him on the end of his M1 rifle that blew him away! I'm very lucky to even be here! He was about to fire the grenade when it suddenly exploded. When he was 7 years old, he almost was killed when his father was killed with a rich man he used to keep dogs for brought a brand new 1930 Dodge sedan to their country farm to take them hunting. The new car's brakes failed halfway down a long hill and the car careened off into a rock wall by a creek covered with ice in upstate NY. Both men died instantly. My father, shoved by the crash up under the front seats, crawled with broken limbs to a farm house nearly a mile back up the road in the freezing snow, where the horrified farmer's wife took him in and call the police to check on the men left in the car. By all accounts he should have also died in the crash. The dogs in the back seat of the car all were also killed, the car completely destroyed. My reason wasn't for the grandstanding that went on. Dad was bedridden by then, so I got all dressed up and accepted the award for him from the Army at the Veteran's Day Celebration at the Rose Gardens...then the news guys and presenters followed us to Methodist Home to present it to him in his room, there. We were afraid to surprise him so he knew what was going to happen. He nearly drove the home's nurses nuts waiting for the group to arrive... (c; My father was a very simple man, a factory worker and farmer all his life. He didn't feel he was entitled to the Heart at all. It took a lot of talking by the Purple Heart recipients to convince him to let them work to get his award.....60 years late.... At his funeral, the Army from the post in Columbia sent an honor guard, a bugler that is very hard to find, two soldiers in sharp dress uniforms to present me with his 1st Division flag and the US Flag. A Major read a little speech as representative of the 1st Division, Big Red One commander. What few of my family still alive that were present were most impressed, as was I. It was a total surprise to us all. The major told me he wished he had known about Dad's injuries in WW2 and he would have been treated first class by the 1st Division. Very unfortunate all those years. I buried him with his new medal on his chest...with all his others from the war. He was so proud to serve, a simple private, a nobody. I still have a couple aunts and uncles, but I'm the only one left in my immediate family. I'm next to go! Great story Larry. Thanks for sharing it with us. |
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D.Duck wrote:
"DK" wrote in message ... D.Duck wrote: "Vic Smith" wrote in message ... On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:16:24 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote: "Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here wrote in message ... D.Duck wrote: "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... http://www.thetandd.com/articles/200...4512519627.txt Not really up on the progression of MS, but isn't his "recovery" nothing short of miraculous? Fantastic..... John Francis had CP, and for him to progress to his level is nothing short of a miraculous show of personal strength and character. This freakin' old age, I read it and by the time I got here to comment I had MS instead of CP in my feeble mind. You just need a good brat. --Vic On that we can definitely agree. Oh how I long for the Bart Stop. Or the Brat Stop! What's wrong with a good Sheboygan "bart"? Damn it all to hell. This getting old really sucks. It's worse than you think - it's Kenosha. HWY 50 exit IIRC. |
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