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01-06-2013, 08:17 PM | #31 |
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01-06-2013, 08:21 PM | #32 |
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The Greatest Generation, no doubt. Pre-Pussification.
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01-06-2013, 08:33 PM | #33 | |
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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.
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01-06-2013, 08:50 PM | #34 | |
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01-06-2013, 09:02 PM | #35 |
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01-06-2013, 09:04 PM | #36 |
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Awesome. I would be proud to.
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01-06-2013, 09:12 PM | #37 |
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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. |
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01-06-2013, 09:20 PM | #38 |
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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. |
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01-06-2013, 09:23 PM | #39 |
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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.
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01-06-2013, 09:24 PM | #40 |
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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.
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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. |
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01-06-2013, 11:32 PM | #42 | |
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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... |
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01-07-2013, 12:12 AM | #44 |
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I just got this old school 16 gauge my dad handed down to me thats been handed down a few generations.
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Found this picture online. My grandpa has an original of this one in a photo album.
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