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Looking4new
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Belated Happy Birthday, buckeyefarmers' Dad and thank you for your service. If it wasn't for guys like you I don't think the rest of us young bucks would be here.
PlumCrazy814
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You are so lucky to still have him around. Mine would have been 95 this year, was selected for service before Pearl Harbor and served well beyond his conscription term in the Pacific Theater. We owe so much to that group of men and I am glad that most of them thrived after serving. I hope you can capture some personal accounts to pass on. I asked but, apparently, it was too much.
LJH
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Exactly the words I was going to write. We owe those guys so much.
2LaneCruzer
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Times 2 here also.
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Happy belated birthday also, we are losing that great generation all to quickly and we can never repay the debt we owe.
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buckeyefarmer
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Thanks everyone.
When I was building my house in 1997 he would come and help some, was in his 70's then. That's when he found out he had cancer, but he has survived it. He has a logbook of where he was in the war, but he can't find it. Growing up he never talked about the war. Every now and then it will come up and we learn a little more. He went thru basic training at Ft Sill. Got a cruise to England on the QE. When he crossed to Normandy around a week after Dday, he said the beach was still full of dead bodies, and the fighting was only a couple miles inland. He fought in the battle of the bulge. He's in front row of this pic taken in Versailles France, in 1945.
When I was building my house in 1997 he would come and help some, was in his 70's then. That's when he found out he had cancer, but he has survived it. He has a logbook of where he was in the war, but he can't find it. Growing up he never talked about the war. Every now and then it will come up and we learn a little more. He went thru basic training at Ft Sill. Got a cruise to England on the QE. When he crossed to Normandy around a week after Dday, he said the beach was still full of dead bodies, and the fighting was only a couple miles inland. He fought in the battle of the bulge. He's in front row of this pic taken in Versailles France, in 1945.
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CeliaGeorge
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That is awesome! Please tell you Dad Happy Birthday from Xenia, Ohio! I honor all who serve, but especially those on Omaha Beach during that period.
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buckeyefarmer
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From his uniform insignia, he was in the 9th Army, XVI Corps. I found a great writeup on Operation Granade, which he would have been in.