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2007-11-12 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by tu3031 2007-11-12 16:02|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Oooooops, thought I put it in Opinion. Finding somethid actually worth reading in the Times must've shook me up.

Posted by tu3031 2007-11-12 16:08|| 2007-11-12 16:08|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm surprised you didn't pass out...

Posted by Raj 2007-11-12 16:10|| 2007-11-12 16:10|| Front Page Top

#3 I am wondering why he quit driving a tractor at age 104?

Posted by WillyP 2007-11-12 17:14|| 2007-11-12 17:14|| Front Page Top

#4 If he's like my dad, the tractor wore out and he just doesn't see the point in getting another one that might outlast him.

Posted by Darrell 2007-11-12 17:39|| 2007-11-12 17:39|| Front Page Top

#5 I hope historians, biographers, and other researchers, etc. are working to get their stories and those of the wartime-epoch generations properly recorded. The present and future geners can't "learn from history" iff they don't know what the probs, issues, or facts were.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-12 18:15|| 2007-11-12 18:15|| Front Page Top

#6 It has to be really strange to be the 'last guy,' to have to drink the whole bottle of brandy alone. I don't think I envy him.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-11-12 18:58|| 2007-11-12 18:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Joe, one thing most of those vets had in common was not being willing to tell their stories. Another thing they seem to have in common is the waking up screaming, from nightmares.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-11-12 19:32|| 2007-11-12 19:32|| Front Page Top

#8 I am hoping to transcribe my grandfather's WWI diaries in the next few weeks. My grandfather didn't see the trenches, however; he was in the Navy. For him, visiting foreign ports and witnessing the German surrender at Scapa Flow were the big events.

One of his hometown friends got a facefull of gas. He recovered, came home, got married, and died two years later from pneumonia brought on by a cold. His lungs couldn't cope with it.

Another hometown friend, engaged before he left, came back severely wounded. His family told the fiancee that they would understand if she did not want to marry him. Her family demanded that she follow through and marry him. So she took care of a brain-damaged man for twenty years.

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