[Rhodes22-list] Conversation with Dad

[General Boats]

Brad,

Watch that tears in the eyes stuff or the rummy will get you....
been there, done that but the rummy's bite is not as bad as its bark.

stan

brad haslett wrote:

> I called my Dad last night to get his perspective on
> how the war was going.  Dad drove a duece and a half
> truck pulling a 105 Howitzer all the way to Germany.
> He never told war stories when I was a kid and never
> made it through the movie "Patton".  He walked out of
> the room with tears in his eyes and said "I don't need
> to watch this son, I was there".  Anyway, 83 years
> have softened him a bit and he was asked by a local
> school teacher to address her class and explain what
> war was like.  He explained to the class that what our
> boys did in Iraq in two days took his unit three
> months with over ten thousand dead.  Mostly he stuck
> to the funny stuff he encountered.  While driving in
> the Red Ball Express they would put their canned meals
> on the engine to warm them up.  Sometimes the convey
> would keep moving for hours at a time and they would
> blow their meal up.  When time allowed, the farm boys
> like my Dad would borrow a French cow and serve their
> buddies steaks.  Dad didn't have much to say about the
> current situation except he was real proud of our
> troops and hoped it would be over soon.  As a parent
> of a soldier who did two tours in Vietnam he said he
> prayed for the troops and their parents.  I asked his
> opinion about the French and he said "they haven't
> changed much since I was there".
>
> Always interesting to hear from someone who's "been
> there, done that".
>
> Brad
>
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