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Ancestry/Genealogy

greatauntoftriplets

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12. That's quite a story.

Reply to multigraincracker (Reply #7)

Sun May 14, 2023, 02:23 PM

May 2023

My father was a staff sergeant who turned down an offer to go to OCS when he enlisted in January of 1942. He was told that he would have to serve extra time in the Army which he did not want to do.

He'd be 113 next November.

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My father would be 100 years old on Thursday. Original Antifa. [View all] Dennis Donovan May 2023 OP

Hey, look who's here. Welcome back, stranger. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2023 #1

Thanks mahatma! Dennis Donovan May 2023 #3

Same with my uncle Siwsan May 2023 #2

So did Dad, w/ the 551st AA AW Bn Company B Dennis Donovan May 2023 #4

A friend said the Battle of the Bulge was the coldest he had ever been. keithbvadu2 May 2023 #8

So was my father. greatauntoftriplets May 2023 #5

Maybe a Sherman tank? Dennis Donovan May 2023 #6

I think so. greatauntoftriplets May 2023 #11

Dad would would have 110 last multigraincracker May 2023 #7

That's quite a story. greatauntoftriplets May 2023 #12

That's quite a story. greatauntoftriplets May 2023 #13

Dad stayed in being in the Arkansas multigraincracker May 2023 #14

My mother was pregnant with my older sister when he left for Europe. greatauntoftriplets May 2023 #15

Photograph Emerges of Leftist Antifa VIOLENTLY Disrupting Conservative White Supremacists!!!! keithbvadu2 May 2023 #9

My old man was ANTIFA also... USS Quincy CA-71 Normandy, Cherbourg mitch96 May 2023 #10