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You are in good company.Quote:
Originally Posted by 25-5
It seems as though college is no longer a place to be challenged to think for yourself it is a place to be taught what to think.
The problem with our parents/grandparents values is that that road is up hill all the way.
Today it is the easy road. Everybody gets a trophy.
Sad but true,but many a veteran made it through the war but never came home.My uncle Ed lived through Juno and right to the end.He never really came home.War can do some terrible things to a mans mind.I meet him later on in the 60's in a veterans pavilion at one of our provincial hospitals.Peace came to him in 1993.
Same as my dad, he went up Juno and died in '93...couldn't hold on for the 50th of D-Day...but he re-lived it every day. Three landings, Sicily, Italy, Normandy...all the way through Holland, Belgium, France, Germany...
That was our family friend, Gordon B. He joined the RAAF, was sent to Canada for flight training as a WAG, commissioned and posted to an RAF Coastal Command squadron in England. Gordon spent the war sub hunting over the North Atlantic. The stress of all it all did its worst to him in the end. Gordon snapped mentally shortly after returning to Australia and being de-mobbed. He spent the rest of his life in and out (mostly short leaves with our family, etc) at Concord Repat.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr.e moose