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11/15/18 6:25 PM |
Plain Old Tim | | Possum Hollow, USA | | | |
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JAG, back to your post of eight hours ago (sorry, I’ve been out all day), my stepdad served in Patton’s Third Army and was surrounded by the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge. A career soldier, he was also a combat infantryman in the Korean War (which was not a just a “conflict”). He received the Bronze Star for heroic actions in both wars, but like most men of “the Greatest Generation” he didn’t go around bragging about his wartime service, and I never saw his citations, so I’m not sure what he did to earn the medals. For the first ten or twelve years of my Navy career, I had the privilege of serving with quite a few old WWII veterans, and God graciously used me in leading three WWII vets to the Lord, including one who just passed away last year. On a lighter note, I knew one man who served in France after D-Day. One time he got drunk on French wine, hopped on a motorcycle to show off in front of his buddies, wrecked the bike and got cut up in the accident. For this “actio0 he was awarded the Purple Heart. But hey, at least he was in France with the Army, and not hanging around a college campus criticizing America and burning the flag. |
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11/15/18 7:45 AM |
Plain Old Tim | | Possum Hollow, USA | | | |
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JAG, you’re right, slavery and the Civil War were a long time ago—and yet not as long as you might think. My grandfather was born in 1900; his grandfather was a Confederate soldier. So there are plenty of us old codgers who knew people who knew others who fought in or lived through the Civil War. Obviously the war itself and the issues leading to the war excite passions to this day. Since the Centennial of the war in the early to mid-1960s aroused my interest in it, I have read everything I could get my hands on regarding the war, and visited many sites such as Vicksburg, Shiloh, Gettysburg, etc. But all I really “know” about the war and conditions leading up to it is what I have read that other people said, and perhaps you have noticed that people can be opinionated, fallible and downright nasty (if you don’t believe it, go back and read my own posts; you’ll see), and what they say may be true and it may not. You may be interested to know that there is a Lickskillet Road a couple of miles from where I live, and another one in the North Georgia town where I lived for a while as a boy. There used to be a Luckskillet Farm up there, too, but it has long since become a subdivision. I have yet to encounter a Lickfryingpan anything, but I’m sure there’s one somewhere. |
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