[Fot] Veteran's Day WWII Memorial

[Tom Householder]

on 11/12/07 9:20 AM, greenman62 at hotmail.com at greenman62 at hotmail.com wrote:

> Sure... 1505s... "Lifers", Blue wool shirts (they made a comeback in the late
> 60s USAF)... tech school down the road at my old man's Alma Mater (Chanute)...
> My Chief Observer at Shaw AFB trying to catch my trainer and I napping during
> a midnight shift by climbing up the shaky weather tower's escape rope...
> getting half way up and being treated by a shower of cold coffee for his
> troubles. "Gee, Sgt. Kemp (not his real name) we didn't know you were there!"
> Sitting in the quiet darkness of a Phillippean night on a loading dock taking
> a break from editing weather reports with my friends... and suddenly being
> scared to death when a rice bug the size of a Buick smacked into the steel
> door behind us...
> 
> Life was tough at the sharp end of the sling psychrometer.
> 
> 'Now back in the brown shoe days..."
> 
> Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois
> 
> That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
> 
> 
> 
>> From: tarch at bellsouth.net
>> To: BillB at bnj.com; edwardbarnard at prodigy.net; fot at autox.team.net
>> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:58:14 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [Fot] Veteran's Day
>> 
>> As a Korean War vet (11th Airborne) I dug up my old kun-cap for show and
>> tell at the office.  Airborne wasn't issued flying saucers. Any of you guys
>> remember that old stuff?
>> 
>> Richard  L. Taylor
>> 
>> Subject: [Fot] Veteran's Day
>> 
>> Surprised no one has said it yet but...Happy Veteran's Day to all the other
>> veteran's on the list! And a belated (yesterday) Happy 232nd Birthday to
> all
>> the Corps veteran's!
>> -Ed Barnard
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There was a story in the local paper on the WWII memorial for those who are
or have friends /family WWII vets. check this site for there existence there
if not there see that they are honored by having there names registerd.
http://www.wwiimemorial.com

also see "Names still Absent from WWII Registry" article ... Columbus
Dispatch  Nov 11. 2007 (OHIO)