Just a quick salute on this day

You should cross post this in the vets group!

Great image. Was that picture taken in the south?

How would you know?!

BTW this map is off some native bald cypress can be found clear up north to central Indiana and further north into
Illinois and along the Mississippi.

Real f***ing genius

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017788559

My dad and a couple of others at a backyard BBQ in Plains Georgia

from,
daughter of a marine wounded at Guadecanal in WW2

and will be putting them on my website one of these days! Lots of photos of my dad in New Guinea. (The nut never falls far from the tree!)

and handsome to boot!

Apparently my uncle also served on P.T. boats in New Guinea. He had two boats shot out from underneath him.

I had an uncle who must have been in the same foxhole as your Uncle Larry. He came back from the war (so my Dad told me anyway) a completely different man than when he entered.
It was sad to see, as a kid, because I didn't know what he went through. I thought he must have been born that way.

When I was old enough to understand (right around the time the Army was measuring me up for Vietnam) my Dad told me the truth about Uncle Ken. I've been totally anti-war ever since. 😥

The things those poor men witnessed and suffered through.

Thanks for remembering them on this day.

Such history.
Even today the military has a lot of multiple generations in it.