a salute to the anti-facists
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S'okay.1shemp said:
They knew when to be there, and that's what matters.
What an amazing generation they were. Living through the 30's was no small thing (depending on where you were), then the war, then building their communities back to peacetime 'new normal'.
All to have a massive Polio pandemic hit in 52.
I think of my uncle, who outlived 2 of the Lancasters he flew. Or my grandfather, who rallied Quebec farmers into producing more than they ever thought possible, or my aunt, running radio-direction-finding out of a shack on a rock in Newfoundland, staring down the Atlantic ocean, daring it to send it's worst for 3 straight years (ok, she ended up a bit nutty, but was always fun).
All to have a massive Polio pandemic hit in 52.
I think of my uncle, who outlived 2 of the Lancasters he flew. Or my grandfather, who rallied Quebec farmers into producing more than they ever thought possible, or my aunt, running radio-direction-finding out of a shack on a rock in Newfoundland, staring down the Atlantic ocean, daring it to send it's worst for 3 straight years (ok, she ended up a bit nutty, but was always fun).
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I know a beautiful old man (mid 90’s) who was in the first wave on the beach at Normandy and then at the bulge. I asked him how he did it and he simply said in the army you do what you’re told. God bless you John Bressler of Soudersburg Pa. He lives in a nursing home that I escaped from so I can,t get in to see him.
