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By The Armorer on September 9, 2010 | | Comments (14)
Miss ya, dad.

Dad's burial flag flying at half-staff in honor of Dad and Beau.

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By JimC on September 9, 2010 10:54 AM
I wish I could tell you these anniversaries get easier ... they don't. 

On a brighter note, When will the story be told?

"There is a story in there, too - of a man who got himself free of his cage, disposed of armed guards bare-handed yet without raising an alarm, freeing fellow captives as his own guerrillas arrived to take him back across the river. But that's a story for a different time."

It is certainly a different time.

 
By Sean Maloney on September 9, 2010 11:49 AM
We have to hear this one, John...

.Don't hold us in suspense!
 
By Boquisucio on September 9, 2010 12:46 PM
My deepest sentiments, Boss.
 
By Saker on September 9, 2010 1:22 PM
Definitely sounds like your dad was a man well worth remembering. God bless!
 
By Justthisguy on September 9, 2010 2:30 PM
Hell, yeah, and what they said!  You should fire a salute to him with that piece, there, some time. You are protecting its bore and touchhole from the weather, right?
 
By Justthisguy on September 9, 2010 3:07 PM
P.s. From what I have read, anhydrous lanolin may be better than cosmoline for retarding corrosion in things made of iron and steel.
 
By BigFred on September 9, 2010 4:39 PM
John,
I have read your posts here on the passing of your Mom and Dad with many tears.  My favorite from your mom? The turpentine in cans around the bed posts.  Your Dad?  Working out a piece of Chinese shrapnel during a softball game.

I am sure they are both proud of you.
 
By Grumpy on September 9, 2010 5:52 PM
"Lord, Thank you for men such as this and their sons" 
 
By Cricket on September 9, 2010 6:15 PM

Went and looked at the pics again.  I wouldn't say that was just any ordinary twinkle...that was a full-scale gleam.  I have to ask:  What was the AAR after the Le Chein allemagne appetizer incident?

 
By Kathy (the Armorer's sis) on September 9, 2010 7:06 PM
It's been a DAY. Went to a funeral for a dear friend who sang at my wedding and died on my birthday.
RIP Dad and Harry. Meet up in heaven and make friends. I miss you both.
 
By Annabelle on September 9, 2010 8:29 PM
Dang, Kathy... that is a YEAR, not just a 'day'.

I am so very sorry for you both.
 
By BillT on September 10, 2010 3:16 AM
September seems to be the cruelest month, despite what Chaucer said.
 
By Justthisguy on September 10, 2010 9:48 PM
What Grumpy said! I recall John's posting of his Dad's  "trophy board", that is objects removed from his body , said objects being the occasion of his Purple Hearts.  There were six objects and seven Purple Hearts,  one award being for a bayonet wound.
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 11, 2010 9:04 AM
Six objects, yes, but only 5 were artifacts causing wounds.  The sixth was the Purple Heart.  Of his three Korean War wounds, he only had one memento - aside from the bayonet wound, he was wounded by circa 30 bb-sized fragments of a Chinese hand grenade.  Some were removed when he was cleaned up, some popped out over the years, and he was buried with about 10 of them still in his arm.