Bonus

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Demolitions, Regimental Headquarters Company, 511th PIR

Citations: Bronze Star, Purple Heart, World War II Victory Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, Philippine Presidential Unit Citation Badge, Philippine Liberation Medal with service star, the American Defense Medal, and the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three Battle Stars and one Arrowhead

He traveled through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead

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And he is from Seneca Falls, NY if I’m not mistaken

was born on December 25, 1924, in Syracuse, New York, to a Jewish family

Funny how the eyebrows are what i remember
Maybe because it was all black and white back then.

A seemingly ordinary guy, on an ordinary day...

written while serving in the 511th PIR, 11th Airborne

Down here there are no Ten Commandments
And a man can raise a thirst;
Here live the outcasts of Civilization,
Life’s Victims at their worst.

Down the steaming Guinea coast
Live the men that God forgot,
Battling the ever present fever,
The itch and the tropical rot.

Living with the natives,
Down in the sweltering zone,
Rooting like hogs in a wallow,
Ten thousand miles from home.

Nobody knows we’re living,
Nobody gives a damn;
Back home we’re soon forgotten—
We soldiers of Uncle Sam.

Drenched with sweat in the evenings
We stew in foxholes and dream,
Killing ourselves with alkie
To dam up memory’s stream.

At night we lie on our pillows
With ills no doctor can cure.
Hell no, we’re not convicts,
Just soldiers on a tour.

We have but one consolation,
And that to you I shall tell,
When we die we’ll all go to heaven,
Because we’ve done our hitch in hell.

I loved that show. It had many soon to be famous actors in most the shows.

I remember him being on a show, maybe Bill Kennedy or some such...being interviewed about his Para experiences. He discussed the physical fitness testing for paratroops which was how I knew he'd been a jumper.

I miss that show and others from my youth,

My Dad was in the 11th Airborne at the end of WW2. Was in Japan before MacArthur got there to do the paperwork.

Later 42rocker