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I met a survivor of the Battle of Iwo Jima today
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<blockquote data-quote="dirtball" data-source="post: 371698" data-attributes="member: 7344"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 10px">My father was there on D-Day, he went in on what they called Easy-Red. He never would talk about it except when he and some of his buddies got really drunk, and then only with each other.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Even though I spent some years in the Navy, I never really understood until I saw Saving Private Ryan.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> It took me ten minutes after the movie ended to clear the tears out of my eyes before I could walk out of there.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> I saw that movie with my children, they were 20 and 17 at the time, my daughter said that could not ever remember seeing me like that, I am not usually very emotional.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> Sitting there thinking about what my dad had gone through I now understood why he would not talk about it, who the hell would want to think about that part of your life if you did not have to.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> Dad died in 1987, 11 years before the movie. He survived the war and made it home without any serious wounds and spent the next 30+ years working for one of lesser known "Agencies" just outside DC.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 10px">It is really sad to see where this country seems to be going, it is like NO ONE understands the Freedom is NOT FREE and it is not the governments responsibility to take care of you.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 10px">OK I will stop ranting.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Dave</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dirtball, post: 371698, member: 7344"] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="2"]My father was there on D-Day, he went in on what they called Easy-Red. He never would talk about it except when he and some of his buddies got really drunk, and then only with each other. Even though I spent some years in the Navy, I never really understood until I saw Saving Private Ryan. It took me ten minutes after the movie ended to clear the tears out of my eyes before I could walk out of there. I saw that movie with my children, they were 20 and 17 at the time, my daughter said that could not ever remember seeing me like that, I am not usually very emotional. Sitting there thinking about what my dad had gone through I now understood why he would not talk about it, who the hell would want to think about that part of your life if you did not have to. Dad died in 1987, 11 years before the movie. He survived the war and made it home without any serious wounds and spent the next 30+ years working for one of lesser known "Agencies" just outside DC. It is really sad to see where this country seems to be going, it is like NO ONE understands the Freedom is NOT FREE and it is not the governments responsibility to take care of you. OK I will stop ranting. Dave[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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