Just flew home from Europe with one of the "Band of Brothers"

[GodGuns&Guitars]

On a recent trip to the VA Hospital in Dallas my brother and I ran into an elderly gentleman wearing a Coast Guard hat. As both of us had served in the Coast Guard we struck up a conversation with him. Come to find out he had been stationed at Pearl Harbor during the bombing. Did he have some stories to tell. We talked with him for a couple of hours. The "sea stories" he told were great.

 

[scurtis_34471]

I'd so much rather meet a guy like that than almost any of the "celebrities" in America today.

X1000

I consider myself fortunate to still have a living grandfather who served in WWII, although his health is failing. I grew up on his stories of flying supplies from India into China over the Himalayas. He was a flight engineer in the Army Air Corp and saw some pretty hair raising stuff.

I was on another forum discussing politics and some 19 year-old punk had the audacity to say that nobody died for his freedom and it was all a bunch of right-wing propaganda. I wanted to reach through the screen and feed him his teeth.

 

[Harve Curry]

Jamkris,
How fortunate you recognized and got to meet Ed Mauser. Sounds like it made every ones day on that flight, including ours.
There should be a program for war veterans to come to schools and speak.