Caustic Burno
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3waycross":evtbgzx9 said:Dave":evtbgzx9 said:My dad was in the Navy training to be a tail gunner in dive bombers and he had a bad reaction to sulfa drugs. So they gave him a medical discharge. But I grew up surrounded by WWII vets. My best friends dad was in the Navy. He ran landing craft at Iwo, Tarowa, and others. One of the nieghbors was a co-pilot in B-17. He was shot down. Shot in the leg and spent two years as a POW. Another was an artillery man in NEW Guinee (sp). He rotated back to the states just in time to be shipped to Italy where he fought for the rest of the war. My brother's best friend's dad was an infantry captain in the Philipines. He had a Jap 7.7 that we played with as kids (firing pin removed). We later found out that he was shot by that same rifle and killed the guy who shot him. When he past a few years ago I found out that he had three purple hearts from the Philipines.
As kids growing up we didn't realize that we were standing beside heros.
Dave we are still standing beside them every day. There are kids giving everything every day for us and we don't even think about it like we should.
You are dead on, I know that my youngest son and some of his friends joined up after 9-11. We still have young men and women willing to stand a wall so we can sleep safely.
We stand by more hero's than we know.