This is my 4th attempt to get my message across. So I am going at it BASSACKWARDS.
This has to do with peoples indifference to vets parades.
Remember when the GI's came home. They were paraded down Broadway with confetti in the air and thousands cheering. What a smart looking bunch of heros they were.
Now go to 1995 and see them marching down the street. What is this; These guys are old,fat and hardly able to keep cadence. why do I waste my time coming to these stupid parades anyway.
Now it's 2007 and Papa Art and I are eating lunch with a guy we have known for years as a fellow worker at Friden , Singer, And lastly TRW. He is the most likable, easy going guy you could ever hope to meet. NEVER raised his voice in anger. could this be the same guy who as a kid,inlisted in the paratroops, jumped into Germany. Was discharged back to civy life. when trouble broke out in Korea, he reinlisted and jumped into Korea. On a patrol, surrounded and his squad leader killed, he took charge. Twice wounded, he kept his buddies together and fought off the enemy. with one of the wounded on his back, he led the squad up, over, and down a mountain to their own lines.
Sitting there across from him, I wondered how this old over weight, man who can only walk with dificulty, could be the same man who was awarded these two awards you see below. But; I know the whole story
Thanks Mare, Thanks Brooke, for letting us know about THE DONALD. He stands quite a bit taller in my eyes. Almost as tall as Ray.
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