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Saorge/VE Day - celebrate life | 9 comments (9 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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I have a cousin who lost toes as a result of frostbite at The Battle of the Bulge. In the army they had a saying: "the badder you are the further you go." My father must have really been bad, as after escorting German POWs from Africa back to the US he was sent to India and then over the Burma Road into China. He was 6' with a large frame and fit would have weighed 220. He returned from China at 140 and never ate another grain of rice in his life.

Even when we disagree with the decision to go to war or with the conduct of the war we should always honor those who served and sacrificed.

Thanks for your beautiful diary.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.

by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Sun May 25th, 2008 at 02:23:39 AM EST

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Thanks for your comment - glad you liked the diary. One of my cousins was shot down during a bombing raid over Germany - he was about 20.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice. Blog - Nice Experience

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Sun May 25th, 2008 at 04:03:41 PM EST
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