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01-07-2013, 12:12 AM | #1 |
**** That Noise
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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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01-07-2013, 08:03 AM | #2 |
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My grandpa saw Pearl Harbor bombing and was a radar operator on a submarine off of the coast of Japan when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
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01-07-2013, 11:30 AM | #3 |
Ain't no relax!
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Holy **** Buck. That's incredible. You should be very proud.
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01-07-2013, 11:32 AM | #4 |
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Oops I should have kept reading. Yes, that's him.
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01-07-2013, 11:39 AM | #5 |
Wearing ballistic dog goggles.
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Your gramps was a stud.
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01-07-2013, 11:51 AM | #6 |
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Christ man.....your Grandpa has 6 purple hearts?
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01-07-2013, 11:52 AM | #7 |
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Or an elite bullet catcher.
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01-07-2013, 11:58 AM | #8 |
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One of the best threads this board has seen. Oorah!
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01-07-2013, 11:59 AM | #9 |
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My favorite thing I have of his is his fighter pilot or helicopter helmet. I don't really know what it was used for, but it looks badass. I'll bust it out when I can climb up there.
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01-07-2013, 12:05 PM | #10 |
Mahomes or GTFO
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Had my dad shoot me a picture of the belt buckle that I mentioned. He now has it. Pretty cool. Apparently it's an SS NCO buckle.
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01-07-2013, 12:08 PM | #11 |
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When I was in high school there was a vet that came and talked to our high school class. He had two whole tables of Nazi artifacts that he had pillaged when the Allies took back Denmark, if I remember correctly. He said when they would come up on a group of German soldiers they would all surrender and get on their knees with their hands behind their heads and he would just walk through their ranks, look at their medals, and any ones he thought were cool he would just take his knife and cut right off of their uniforms. He said they were never too happy about that but he was like "What are you gonna do about it?" He said he would send the medals home periodically, but he only got the chance to mail things every couple of weeks, so he would carry the stuff around in his coat until he got the chance. Also, when they marched into I believe Copenhagen and took back the capital, he was the one who climbed up on the capitol building and cut down the Nazi flag...Which he also carried around in his coat for weeks. He had that on display when he visited. It was huge. And badass.
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I've always thought that was a really cool story.
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