Similarities...My Dad and GHWB
Had my Dad still been alive, he would have been the same age of GHWB.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, 07 Dec 1941, both immediately enlisted into the Navy.
Dad got banged up while serving on a plywood hulled minesweeper in the South Pacific,
wounds he carried all of his life: USS Dash AM88. He had a different career path, not
at all into politics, or the power and prestige that comes with it or wealth. His family owned a
butcher shop in Cicero, IL during the era of Al Capone...which was the turf of Capone in Chicago.
Why do I admire GHWB? Best of two CIC's I served under.
Two persons I consider to be real American Heroes.
Irony in GHWB's passing. Pearl Harbor Day is tomorrow, forgotten by so many.
GHWB was buried 06 Dec 2018, a day short of the anniversary of that event.
Last edited by Elessar; 12-06-2018 at 11:38 PM.
I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same of others"...John Wayne in "The Shootist"
A Deplorable!
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