Remember Those Who Gave Their Lives For Our Country

#5
#5
One of my coworkers when I was in the Air Force.

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RIP Casey.

 
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Can i throw a shout out to my dad, who ALMOST died in battle, but didn't die until the age of 93, sixty-some years after his service? He was a first lieutenant that was ordered to move his men from Northern France to a place called Brectesgaaden (sp?).
Shortly after they moved out, one of the men in front of him hit a trip-wire tthat launched a Bouncing Betty. The Bouncing Betty is a grenade that is shallowly buried, but launches uup to about chest level before exploding.
Sure enough, it did, and he caught a piece of shrapnel in the chest. They tossed him in the back of a truck, which did a lot of bouncing, itself, through the war-torn land as it transported him to the nearest friendly medical outpost, where he made his recovery.
For those that don't know, that place I'm sure i misspelled a while back, Brectesgaaden, was also known as The Eagle's Nest, or Hitler's Palace.
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
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I’ve been rewatching Band of Brothers this week for the 100th time, but always find myself being able to take away something positive and new from it. The leadership qualities that obviously Winters possessed and how the platoon leaders like Bull, Compton, Lipton, Guarnere and Spears (who was a different kind of leader I guess) went so far to get the most of out of their guys is remarkable. Also, shows how incompetent leaders like Lt. Dyke and lack of decision making, coupled with poor decision making can get a lot of guys unnecessarily killed.
I also read about Sobel and his life after the war and that guy did not handle losing Easy well at all unfortunately.

I have a harder take away from the Pacific. It was so dark and just hard to imagine those sorts of environments.
 
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My Uncle Jack, Aero Rifle Platoon 11th ACR, awarded a Silver Star posthumously after leading a counterattack when the ARP's were caught in a triangle ambush.

I've become friends with many of his colleagues and his PL is pushing to have him upgraded to a DSC or Medal of Honor but we all know the politics involved.
 

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