The 304th Infantry Crossing Rhine River at St. Goar, Germany (4/9/45).
We had already done a hard day’s fighting when information came back to our trucks that the enemy battalian CP was still located in the next village.
The order was, ‘Take it!’
T/4 Frank Knapp, Jr., WWII
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We owe our World War II veterans – and all our veterans – a debt we can never fully repay. Doc Hastings
Sure different world back then. Glad we made through that one.
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You’ve got that right.
We owe our World War II veterans – and all our veterans – a debt we can never fully repay.
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My dad was in the Army Air Corp over there. I was raised hearing stories of “the War.” When I turned 18, I enlisted Army to go to the Nam. That was a whole different world from “The War” I heard about…and now… And so it goes.
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Did the same in the USAF …
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan
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That is so true!
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Very war like and very well done!
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Your father was an excellent artist and captured the moments in history well!
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The allied troops never wavered in their mission. We definitely owe them our gratitude.
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That we surely do!
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