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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 24585457, member: 100459&quot;]Wow!&nbsp; Great history lesson.&nbsp; My father&#039;s grandparents immigrated to the states i 1917, I think.&nbsp; WW I had a terrible impact on my great-great grandparents.&nbsp; My great, great grandfather was killed in France during WW I.&nbsp; Two of my Great Great Uncles were killed in the South Pacific during WWII.&nbsp; My father was a corpsman for the U.S. Marines.&nbsp; My father continued to serve as a corpsman during Korea and lastly in Vietnam, where he injured his back and was medivaced to the states.&nbsp; My brother was in the navy and operated the computers for the big guns they had.&nbsp; They got hit by something and killed the other man in the gun turret (or whatever the Navy called them.&nbsp; I was drafted.&nbsp; I took basic at Bragg, AIT at DIX during the winter, then jump school at Benning.&nbsp; I went to Bragg 82nd Airborne.&nbsp; I was supposed to go to OCS at Sill, but got sick and had two operations.&nbsp; It kept me out of combat.&nbsp; They found out I was a proficient typist, so I went to work as a law clerk typist.</p><p>I love history and I am so grateful for your history lesson.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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