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so?
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my good friend joe ws one of the first in iraq..
he called me a few times from a satelite phone..
i felt all important like..
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my good friend joe ws one of the first in iraq..
he called me a few times from a satelite phone..
i felt all important like..
My bro used to live in Ohio and he has severl gulf war veteran buddies.
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both of my great grandfather-ww1
both my grandfathers-ww2(1 was in the normandy invasion)
dad and two uncles-vietnam(my dad did 3 tours)
cousin-desert storm
same cousin as above and another cousin-iraq
me-none but i am a police officer
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4 Cousins ww2...1 marine/1 Pilot/ 1 Air Crew - POW
1 Great Uncle with the the 3rd SS Panzer Div -
1 Cousin with the Marines in korea
Dad was a pilot in Vietnam 2 tours
Uncle was an MP with the 7th Cav - Vietnam
Mom's uncle was with the Australian Army - Vietnam
Cousin British Royal Marines Norther Ireland a few tours
Cousin 2nd Marine Div..Desert Storm
me two tours Iraq and Afghanistan
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Relatives in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
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If we're going to include world wars then I'm gonna throw in my grandpa's sikh friend who served with the brits in wwII.
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Those guys were tough as hell.
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4 Cousins ww2...1 marine/1 Pilot/ 1 Air Crew - POW
1 Great Uncle with the the 3rd SS Panzer Div -
1 Cousin with the Marines in korea
Dad was a pilot in Vietnam 2 tours
Uncle was an MP with the 7th Cav - Vietnam
Mom's uncle was with the Australian Army - Vietnam
Cousin British Royal Marines Norther Ireland a few tours
Cousin 2nd Marine Div..Desert Storm
me two tours Iraq and Afghanistan
Yea but in the Army... >:(
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Ancestor, Gottfried von Berlichingen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_Von_Berlichingen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_Von_Berlichingen)
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Thats cool as hell.....how clean is the line back?
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Yea but in the Army... >:(
It was not my fault they called of the haiti invasion...
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My grandfather drove a M18 Hellcat and other vehicles across Europe.
(http://www.tocmp.com/pix/Buick/images/BuickM18Tank.jpg)
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Pretty much every generation in my family, stopping at my father lol
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Thats cool as hell.....how clean is the line back?
Ha ha, that line goes via my great great grandmother, she was German. Pretty messed up but nonetheless still an ancestor.
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Shadow....bout time to you started a thread that wasn't lame and queer.....
Grandfather(love you, Joe!) served in World War II as a bombardier on B-17 Flying Fortress' over Germany during the mid 40's. He could fly those things also if had to. If anyone follows war history through movies or literature then some would remember the "Memphis Belle". The Belle flew during a time where 25 bomb missions were the required amount of flights before you become honorably discharged from your tour to be with your families. My grandfather flew a few years before the Memphis Belle during a time where you had to fly up to 35 missions before going home. He survived all of those missions with hardly a scratch(he did got shot down once as I recall with no serious injury). Most other men who fly those missions weren't so lucky. My grandpa was in his late teens and early twenties when he flew those missions. Just a goddamn kid back then. Remarkable.
I really miss the guy....... :'(
Here's a link to those B-17 Flying Fortress'. I used to love putting model versions together when I was a kid. Those things were badass!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-17_bomber
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I have a long line of family in the Military recorded back to even one being a Minuteman.
Grandfathers - WW1
Fathers, Uncles (Army, Navy)
Cousins & Brother (Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard)
Myself - Marines - Served in Kuwait Liberation & Somalia
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Ive seen Platoon.
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Ive seen Platoon.
I'm sorry dude,i just cant imagine the hell you went thru :o ;D
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Uncles killed in Korea, and Nam.
My cousin is on his third tour in Iraq.
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every fckin grand and fore father of mine it seems. now my brother's being shipped to iraq in a few months. Its in the blood ;)
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every fckin grand and fore father of mine it seems. now my brother's being shipped to iraq in a few months. Its in the blood ;)
You fucking punjabis love to fight in general.. When my grandpa bitched about the colonial days, he talked about you dudes being like guns for hire to the brits. ;D
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My dad was in WWII in the Aleutian Islands. He was ski patrol. I remember when I was in Boy Scouts and wanted a new sleeping ag he would always tell me about his sleeping bag he had in the war.
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All of my great uncles were killed in the 1st world war. My Great Grandmother had 16 chlldren, & all the men got taken out.
In the second world war, most of their sons went.
I really should find out what regiment etc. they were in.
My Dad was studying to be an engineer and joined the navy when he was 17 in 1944, he went to Singapore on an aircraft carrier. Then the war ended when he got there and he came home. He got a medal though, he said it was just for showing up. He never talked about it.
I had a boyfriend recently (though a few years ago) who'd joined the Army, straight out of boarding school. They sent him to Germany to help take that wall down. I've still got his combat jacket.
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I have my Great Grandads, my Grandads and my Fathers medals and I'm entitled to wear them on the other side of my chest every rememberance day.
& I have the most amazing pencil-written letter home from my Great Grandad from the trenches in WW1. He was worrying about not getting the sixpence pay he got back to his wife in time to feed the 16 kids.
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hey guys tell me those war stories that your friends and family members told you...i really like that stuff
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hey guys tell me those war stories that your friends and family members told you...i really like that stuff
They don't ever talk about it. It was nasty. They won't say.
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I met tons of pacificists who'd ran up north when I lived in Canada.
They didn't stop talking about it.
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my uncles did, and so did my dad. (vietnam and korean wars). i think my grandfather did too. (world war 2). my friend sam was in iraqu in 2004. i just saw him this past week. he's home now. but could go back at any time if they call him to. :'(
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I would think my one uncle did. He graduated from the Naval Academy. Don't you serve time after that or something. He probably graduated in the early 50's.
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My dads uncle was captured by the nazi's and put into a prison camp. They fed him snow and potatoe skins. He never liked to talk about it much, my old man said he was never the same after he got out.
My mums grandfather was a soldier in WW2, I remember him telling me a story where he was on the beach and a navy ship of somesort fired a torpedo and it pulled up right along side him but didnt explode. The thing was a matter of metres from where he was stationed.
My great grandmother when they use to live in Italy and were very poor, they had 4 nazi soldiers come to their house my grandmother was just a baby. The 4 soldiers took my grandmother and brought her near the fireplace where they all surrounded her. My greatgrandmother thought they were going to throw her into the fire. Turns out they left gave her back, when my great grandmother when to unrap the baby to see if they did anything to her they had stuffed gold and jewllery under the blankets aswell as bread.
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My step dad was in Vietnam though he never really talks about anything (horrible grusome shit went on)other then his bootcamp and other on camp experiances. Although he did tell me the day before my 21st b-day to enjoy it cause his was spent laying in a rice pattie during an all day rain storm. His dad was in WW2 and we still ocassional shoot a 9mm pistol he had taken from a dead German soldier who stole it from a dead Polish soldier.
In my blood family I my pop-pop and his older brother were in the Army and Nazy but only his brother went to war which was out in the pacific. From the few stories I remember were about his ship getting kamikazed and shit, he was only 17 when he joined too.
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My cousin who was aircrew and shot down over France ended up in a Luft Stalag that housed Russians as well. When the Allied prisoners acted up they sent in the dogs..when they did the same when the Russians acted up, they (Russians) ate the dogs so they had to stop.
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My dads uncle was captured by the nazi's and put into a prison camp. They fed him snow and potatoe skins. He never liked to talk about it much, my old man said he was never the same after he got out.
My mums grandfather was a soldier in WW2, I remember him telling me a story where he was on the beach and a navy ship of somesort fired a torpedo and it pulled up right along side him but didnt explode. The thing was a matter of metres from where he was stationed.
My great grandmother when they use to live in Italy and were very poor, they had 4 nazi soldiers come to their house my grandmother was just a baby. The 4 soldiers took my grandmother and brought her near the fireplace where they all surrounded her. My greatgrandmother thought they were going to throw her into the fire. Turns out they left gave her back, when my great grandmother when to unrap the baby to see if they did anything to her they had stuffed gold and jewllery under the blankets aswell as bread.
Forgive me if I'm not up to date on my war history but why did the Nazis help your grandmother and family?
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My father, US Army, was in Vietnam and my brother, Major in the Army, is finishing up his second tour in Iraq.
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Forgive me if I'm not up to date on my war history but why did the Nazis help your grandmother and family?
They felt sorry for her because she was extremely poor from what im told.
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one of my great ghreat uncles or great granbdfathers was an engineer and has a bridge named after him over i think the largest river in india. had great uncles in ww1 in favct lots of relatives