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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 26529363, member: 128351&quot;]Veterans in my family...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1690901[/ATTACH]</p><p>My dad, 4th from the left, in July 1940, after the worst military disaster of the country&#039;s history. His comrades smile, not him. He re-enlisted as an officer in february 1945, and, in the French occupation sector in Germany, managed the finances to help rebuild the devastated local industries. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1690909[/ATTACH]</p><p>My grandpa in 1909. He fought in WW1 in the cavalry and in the artillery, was discharged in 1916 because he was now deaf. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1690910[/ATTACH]</p><p>My other grandpa, in 1916. He volunteered in 1914 at the age of 17 and served four years carrying messages on horseback on the frontlines, and was never wounded... But in 1940, being a civilian refugee, he was bombed by enemy aircraft abnd was severely hurt while his wife, my grandma, was killed. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1690908[/ATTACH]</p><p>My great-great-great-grandpa. He served in the Grande Armée under Napoleon. This photo was taken c. 1859, he was then in his 70s and, like other old napoleonic veterans, posed in his old uniform.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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