| RE:3500 mile road trip just to race the Crossfire! |
Subject: RE:3500 mile road trip just to race the Crossfire! by CSS996 on 2007/9/21 14:33:03 Looking things up online, I am reading that there were 50-60 million... MILLION casualties in WWII. That's insane! That is total casualties, not just U.S. One source says 2,583 MIA from Vietnam. 78,000 from WWII. Am I right or no? Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. I never really talked to them about their experiences, and I'm not up on terminology, so forgive me here... My mother's dad rode a motorcycle to the front of enemy lines so he could observe where enemy artillery was stationed, and he gave coordinates back to our artillery units, and they used his information to target their stuff. My dad's dad flew a B-17 or B-29 (can't remember which) over Germany. He refused to talk about his experiences much, but he told me a story about a time when he was flying so low, one of his gunners would have had to point his machine gun upwards to shoot at a train. He received the distinguished flying cross, and also a purple heart. The purple heart was from a piece of schrapnel that blew through the cockpit glass, through his left arm and lodged in his right arm. He died just last year, with the fragments still in there. I was never a war buff, but I have a buddy who is. I took him over to my Grandfather's house one time, so we could go shoot pistols in their back yard. When I showed him my Grandfather's service medals, my buddy about shite his pants, so I guess there was some good stuff in there. So, anyway, if they built a wall with every fallen US soldier's name from WWII, it would certainly dwarf the Vietnam Memorial. I have not seen the WWII memorial. I hope I get a chance someday. |
