tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post7330396967445661164..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: Traditional, NowSippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-43571619127254706192010-06-02T19:42:48.889-04:002010-06-02T19:42:48.889-04:00Loved this -- the way it was written -- :)Loved this -- the way it was written -- :)H. Gillhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16866823621648796335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-45141071021762074462010-06-01T16:18:12.743-04:002010-06-01T16:18:12.743-04:00Thanks for sharing your uncle with us. A privilege...Thanks for sharing your uncle with us. A privilege to hear about his life and his service. And the mix of family emotions from pride to sorrow of loss to determination.Retrieverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036341287285545932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-15842854872977924922010-06-01T11:27:13.222-04:002010-06-01T11:27:13.222-04:00Hello everyone - Thanks for reading and commenting...Hello everyone - Thanks for reading and commenting.<br /><br />As I understand it, my uncle's picture in the 101st is his training picture. He fought in Korea in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He died on Pork Chop Hill on July 8th, 1953. His remains were never recovered. Three weeks later the war was over.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-24262441506638880852010-05-31T23:49:28.225-04:002010-05-31T23:49:28.225-04:00According to LTC David Womack, commanding officer ...<i>According to LTC David Womack, commanding officer of the 1st Battalion of the Regiment, "The memorial has come to symbolize the strong bonds that unite the Currahees across generations and wars." He said, "Those bonds - founded in pride, commitment and shared experience - explain the esprit de corps that is legendary in the 506th, and which is demonstrated in the success of this project."</i><br /><br />http://www.506infantry.org/index.htm<br /><br />--GrayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-48677162967063595432010-05-31T23:39:27.507-04:002010-05-31T23:39:27.507-04:00I wandered in here from American Digest.
I was an...I wandered in here from American Digest.<br /><br />I was an officer in the 1st Battalion 506th Infantry in Korea.<br /><br />In 1992.<br /><br />Your uncle won the peace, with his life, that we later patrolled and preserved<br /><br />As a fellow "Currahee", he is my brother.<br /><br />We don't forget our Hallowed Dead. At every Officers' Mess, at every meeting of The Brotherhood, we remembered, saluted and toasted the Honored Dead that gave my unit its fearsome and sterling reputation.<br /><br />1/506 Infantry is in Afghanistan now. I'm not; and it grieves me. They are, again, acquitting themselver courageously and honorably.<br /><br />As your uncle did.<br /><br />"Stands Alone!"<br /><br />--GrayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-85236679649786831202010-05-31T11:33:10.086-04:002010-05-31T11:33:10.086-04:00My dad served in a destroyer, Pacific theater. He ...My dad served in a destroyer, Pacific theater. He too spoke almost not at all of the war. Four things things prompted him to recall, so I remember them each<br /><br />After sea battles they fished Japanese out of the ocean with nets, because they would not come out voluntarily, and bolted them to the deck, because they would jump back in. <br /><br />During kamikaze attacks, he witnessed two ships that did not burn or sink, but disappeared.<br /><br />The ships doctor went insane, because he was too old. He was thirty. <br /><br />And, the great typhoon of December, 1944. <br /><br />But I am told by old-timers that the WW11 vets were regular chatterboxes compared to the WW1 vets. We want them to remember, they want to forget.xlbrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01931950075332608449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-81534849999171368362010-05-31T11:16:37.352-04:002010-05-31T11:16:37.352-04:00TedC
A moving tribute to Francis. Thanks for the...TedC<br /><br />A moving tribute to Francis. Thanks for the introduction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-47171245144523736302010-05-31T10:49:58.502-04:002010-05-31T10:49:58.502-04:00Your uncle and your father were great men. Your mo...Your uncle and your father were great men. Your mother loved her brother very much, too. That's good.<br /><br />The neighbor farm out here in the country had a boy who served in the 101st in WW2. He got killed in Europe. He earned the MOH, and his name was Joe Mann.<br /><br />Last month I said words at my uncle's funeral. He was in the infantry in Korea.Casey Klahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08020906666248399435noreply@blogger.com