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Re: 100 Year old WWII Vet breaks down.
[Re: Finster]
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07/03/22 10:46 PM
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Nelly
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Guys like him make me feel like less of a man. Everybody wants to give me stuff for being a veteran, but I know that just because you heard some loud noises,smelled some bad odors and knew what those flies were eating does make you better. I guess that I should just go to bed and not think about it. I have expressed these feelings to others at VFW and MOC meetings, and they all tell me that they are happy that I don't have to know what it's like.
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. O Lord please don't let me be misunderstood.
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Re: 100 Year old WWII Vet breaks down.
[Re: Nelly]
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07/03/22 11:07 PM
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H2ORat
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Guys like him make me feel like less of a man. Everybody wants to give me stuff for being a veteran, but I know that just because you heard some loud noises,smelled some bad odors and knew what those flies were eating does make you better. I guess that I should just go to bed and not think about it. I have expressed these feelings to others at VFW and MOC meetings, and they all tell me that they are happy that I don't have to know what it's like. Nelly -- I don't care about what free stuff they are offering --- You deserve respect - for what you have endured - many of us are not quite sure that we can do as you have done. It has been a huge sacrifice for you (whether you feel it was or not) to allow us to live as we do. It is a debt we cannot hope to repay -- but we have to try.
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Re: 100 Year old WWII Vet breaks down.
[Re: Finster]
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07/03/22 11:30 PM
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Nelly
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Anyone can bust the beads on tires, pound out and weld up mangled up sheet metal and winch up broke dick trucks. Close with and destroy the enemy is an entirely different thing. In the rear with the gear was basically where I was at. It wasn't until years later that I realized that the rhythmic thumping of artillery and carpet bombing were something that I shouldn't have been happy to hear. I heard and felt the thumping, thinking that we were kicking butt,never thought about who was on the receiving end.
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. O Lord please don't let me be misunderstood.
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Re: 100 Year old WWII Vet breaks down.
[Re: Finster]
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07/04/22 11:19 AM
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Finster
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Looks like a Bronze star on his chest? I don't think it's silver, but I can't tell with the lighting.
I BELIEVE IN MY GOD, MY COUNTRY AND IN MYSELF.
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Re: 100 Year old WWII Vet breaks down.
[Re: Finster]
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07/04/22 12:06 PM
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If the people of this nation ever wake up and see who there real enemy is and get some fight about them then we could move forward.
No matter where you go there you are.
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