Ivantherussian03
06-04-2007, 03:34 PM
Frank is the guy next door to my house in Oregon. Frank and his wife are rather elderly, both are well into their 80's. My wife and I take them out to lunch from time to time.
One day I asked Frank what he was doing in WWII. His wife just smirked, and said yeah.
Frank said "I was a Navy medic." Then listed some of places he had been: Okinawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima. It turns out Frank was on the front end of those invasions, and many more. he knew every time they picked up a load marines they were going to invade something, and frank would be going to. Amazingly he never got a strach he said.
The only battle that was truely amazing to Frank was Iwo Jima; the USA really did not have the manpower or resources to take the island from the Japs. But some determined marines did it anyway.
It is the Aniversary of D-Day today I believe. It makes think of a bumper sticker I saw recently,
"If you love your freedom thank a soldier. If your reading this in English thank a teacher"
One day I asked Frank what he was doing in WWII. His wife just smirked, and said yeah.
Frank said "I was a Navy medic." Then listed some of places he had been: Okinawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima. It turns out Frank was on the front end of those invasions, and many more. he knew every time they picked up a load marines they were going to invade something, and frank would be going to. Amazingly he never got a strach he said.
The only battle that was truely amazing to Frank was Iwo Jima; the USA really did not have the manpower or resources to take the island from the Japs. But some determined marines did it anyway.
It is the Aniversary of D-Day today I believe. It makes think of a bumper sticker I saw recently,
"If you love your freedom thank a soldier. If your reading this in English thank a teacher"