11 November 2010

veterans' day

 i got an ancestor or two that participated in the revolution and another couple in the war of 1812 --- some in the war against northern aggression, one of whom is buried at vicksburg --- just as many avoided the whole thing if they could ---

my maternal grandpa was stationed in puerto rico in 1918 , but my grandpa jones was in france, amid mustard gas and unending trench warfare (that's him at extreme left)--- stroked out in his old age, he use to sing to me when i was a kid, "on top of old smokey," with which he tried to relay some memory of a comrade in a watchtower in france, singing that song for some unexplained reason that might or might not have included drunkeness---

this photo was taken toward the end of that "great war," "the war to end all wars" ---



only it wasn't --- here's paw paw in 1943 before shipping out to the south pacific --- saipan and tinian being the high points of his tour of duty ---



i'll save the rest for memorial day

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