doubleh
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I fly my flag on those days also unless the wind is high. That results in a flag wound around my angled pole.
Growing up on the south plains of Texas I remember mostly the scarcity of goods and ration books. My father and his older brother were farmers and the draft wouldn't accept them telling them they were more important to the war effort at home than toting a rife. The older one was already 40 years old and my dad was 38 when Pearl was bombed. Next younger was a carpenter and away he went to wear an army uniform but was never sent over seas. The youngest had his draft notice awaiting when he graduated high school, He got in on the tail end of finishing off Germany and returned with a purple heart which he poo-pooed saying it was nothing but a scratch from a mortar fragment. My wife has 2 uncles, both B-17 pilots, that are buried in France.
Growing up on the south plains of Texas I remember mostly the scarcity of goods and ration books. My father and his older brother were farmers and the draft wouldn't accept them telling them they were more important to the war effort at home than toting a rife. The older one was already 40 years old and my dad was 38 when Pearl was bombed. Next younger was a carpenter and away he went to wear an army uniform but was never sent over seas. The youngest had his draft notice awaiting when he graduated high school, He got in on the tail end of finishing off Germany and returned with a purple heart which he poo-pooed saying it was nothing but a scratch from a mortar fragment. My wife has 2 uncles, both B-17 pilots, that are buried in France.
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