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HonestChieffan 01-06-2013 08:17 PM
Thanks for posting

Bob Dole 01-06-2013 08:21 PM
The Greatest Generation, no doubt. Pre-Pussification.

And no "embedded media" and 24/7 bullshit coverage.

dmahurin 01-06-2013 08:33 PM
I'm not at home to take a picture but my great uncle was the seargant that ordered the original raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. I have his missouri medal of honor certificate and write up hanging on the wall. He also played himself in the movie "sands of Iwo Jima" with John Wayne. I remember talking to him as a kid but he passed away when I was around 10.

Strongside 01-06-2013 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by dmahurin (Post 9290291)
I'm not at home to take a picture but my great uncle was the seargant that ordered the original raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. I have his missouri medal of honor certificate and write up hanging on the wall. He also played himself in the movie "sands of Iwo Jima" with John Wayne. I remember talking to him as a kid but he passed away when I was around 10.
Wow. Total badass.

SAUTO 01-06-2013 09:02 PM
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Wow. Total badass.
Yep for sure
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LiveSteam 01-06-2013 09:04 PM
Awesome. I would be proud to.

Buck 01-06-2013 09:12 PM
I have some of my grandfathers things I want to take pictures of and throw up in this thread, but I'm immobile right now and can't.

Those are awesome pieces of history you have there man.

Buck 01-06-2013 09:20 PM
Here is one thing I could reach (other stuff is up in my closet and I cant climb up right now).

This was earned in WWII in Okinawa.

http://i.imgur.com/2yjiP.jpg?1

Strongside 01-06-2013 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Buck (Post 9290475)
Here is one thing I could reach (other stuff is up in my closet and I cant climb up right now).

This was earned in WWII in Okinawa.

http://i.imgur.com/2yjiP.jpg?1
Awesome. It's a cool thing to hold things like this for sure. You see pictures of it all the time, but it's kind of surreal to actually hold a piece of history.

Buck 01-06-2013 09:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Strongside (Post 9290481)
Awesome. It's a cool thing to hold things like this for sure. You see pictures of it all the time, but it's kind of surreal to actually hold a piece of history.
Yep...and WWII history is so amazing. Even if it wasn't my grandfather's stuff, I would never sell it, no matter the value, because it's so amazing to touch and hold.

Groves 01-06-2013 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Bob Dole (Post 9290221)
The Greatest Generation, no doubt. Pre-Pussification.

And no "embedded media" and 24/7 bullshit coverage.

Totally agree with Bob Dole about the Greatest Generation.


But, to be fair, Eisenhower had hollywood film crews with many of the soldiers because he wanted things documented.

griZZly64 01-06-2013 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Strongside (Post 9289149)
Unfortunately no. There is a lot of other stuff, though. An 'SS' belt buckle, a couple of N.S.D.A.P. dishes and a jewish star patch. Grandma said he sent a lot of things back while he was over there, and that they have some other things in storage as well. I wish there was artwork, though. No one did propaganda better than Nazi Germany. Their artists/PR minds were a military force themselves.



This. Over and over again. I really don't know that my generation or the one below mine could do half of the things that these guys had to do...I admire the bravery of our soldiers today, but this was a fight against true, undeniable evil. Scary shit.
You're hypin with the evil shit. We slaughtered all the natives and nobody complained or called us evil. They were our enemy in that conflict but I'm not gunna say they were evil. Not like guys on the German side could speak up and refuse to carry out orders. We're in the middle east right now imposing our will and telling people how to live in their own damn country.

teedubya 01-06-2013 11:44 PM
These guys were no doubt, tough... but they were a product of the great depression... and having to work hard. When you realize that that first "Great Depression" was created by the Federal Reserve Bank's pulling in lots of US currency, it created a severe lack of dollars in circulation. The Roaring 20's were like the tech 90's in a since.

Today, the Fed prints about 80 billion currency notes monthly, and the US is still broke? LOL.

Very cool artifacts, indeed. He'd have to taken them directly from dead Nazi soldiers...

RustShack 01-07-2013 12:12 AM
I just got this old school 16 gauge my dad handed down to me thats been handed down a few generations.

dmahurin 01-07-2013 03:02 AM
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Originally Posted by dmahurin (Post 9290291)
I'm not at home to take a picture but my great uncle was the seargant that ordered the original raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. I have his missouri medal of honor certificate and write up hanging on the wall. He also played himself in the movie "sands of Iwo Jima" with John Wayne. I remember talking to him as a kid but he passed away when I was around 10.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com...UHP-IND330.jpg

Found this picture online. My grandpa has an original of this one in a photo album.


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