OT - Dad's war stories

worthy son of great man...well done

Hey John,
Hats off to your dad!! The tribute that you did for your dad is awesome!!
I'm sure your dad is lookin down on ya and saying "thats my boy!!"
I too come from a military family and the stories that I have heard and the pix that I have in my collection will be charished big time.
Flaps up, Mike

Thanks, guys.

Bumping it back to page 1 :)

Hey John P;
Thanks for sharing your Dad's lifes stories with us, It makes me proud to be a part of the Heritage he made for all of us USAF personel at home and deployed, and I do beleave that the crazy thing's people do when your deployed just to keep you sane is true, with out the insanity there would be no sanity,
THANK AGAIN
Ugly Butt Deadly Effective Hawgs
Cuda

Just read your accounts of your fathers Life and can understand why you are justifiably proud of him. A great story that can be preserved for your grandchildren and theirs.

Wow. You're lucky you know so much though. My grandfather was an army medic with the Lancashire regiment on the front line in Normandy. He's always been a very modest man and never talked much about his experiences, and now his memory's gone (he's 86 now). The one thing he ever told me was about an experience of being shelled when out on patrol - sounded horrific. Watching Band of Brothers last year helped me realise what sort of terrible experiences he must have had, and that maybe there's a lot he doesn't want to remember.