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It was the lucky bullett

Posted on: May 8, 2024 at 10:11:47 CT

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It sent him home. He had been wounded before with a bayonnet, but he got nasty malaria after this one and they sent him back to the U.S. where he was in the hospital for months. By the time he got out, the war was over.

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You were in 'Nam? (nm) - TigerJackSwartz MU

- 5/8 10:24:25

calling ace, jg, rask, matty, etc......nm - tigertix MU - 5/8 09:24:47

nah- those first three are awful - Fire Marshall Bill MU - 5/8 09:31:41

can't be too many WW2 vets still kicking around - Joeboo MU

- 5/8 09:23:58

I wanted to go to Normandy this year - XRob MU

- 5/8 10:49:28

gramps died at 99 in 2020 - CulturedDan KC - 5/8 09:29:05

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- 5/8 09:33:23

Jap bullet missed by about 2 inches - Tptiger MU - 5/8 09:51:33

with the humidity he's real lucky he wasn't long ballin' it - lqf2b8 MU - 5/8 09:55:41

It was the lucky bullett - Tptiger MU - 5/8 10:11:47

Probably not too many people survive getting bayoneted - lqf2b8 MU - 5/8 10:18:08

I figured if he lived through that - Tptiger MU - 5/8 12:40:33

I knew two different guys that caught a break in Korea - alwaysright MU - 5/8 09:44:00

People mostly don't know how F-ed up that war was - XRob MU

- 5/8 10:57:36

WOW(nm) - Fire Marshall Bill MU - 5/8 09:34:09

still had to march all over Europe for months - Joeboo MU

- 5/8 09:34:55

one of my grandfather's flew in B-17's that bombed the **** - Fire Marshall Bill MU - 5/8 09:37:24

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My dad would be 100 years old. He was a B-24 bomber pilot - Uncle John MU

- 5/8 09:49:59

he was pretty darn young in WW2 then - Joeboo MU

- 5/8 10:01:04

Yup, he was and got out finished college in 48. Then - Uncle John MU

- 5/8 10:35:08

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whoah(nm) - CulturedDan KC - 5/8 13:52:00

yep, mine was a pipe smoker. Lung cancer got him in 1990(nm) - Joeboo MU

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yup, it was a coin flip if you were gonna see the next day - Fire Marshall Bill MU - 5/8 09:36:02

Same with the pilots of those B-17s........nm - tigertix MU - 5/8 09:39:06

was he in the European front?(nm) - Fire Marshall Bill MU - 5/8 09:32:17

yeah, they're pretty much extinct - Fire Marshall Bill MU - 5/8 09:24:38