Relatives in wars
Here is where you can talk about your relatives who were in wars.
My great uncle Buster, was in I think Iwo Jima during WWII. He was with a squad, and a grenade was thrown at them. My great uncle, covered the grenade with his body, and saved his comerades. He too, miraculously survived. He recieved a purple heart for his actions, and currently my aunt is trying to get him a Congressional Medal of Honor for going above and beyond the call of duty.
My great grandfather on my mother's was in the Navy in World War 1, and my grandfather on my dad's side went to Guam in World War 2, didn't see any action, though.
Way back on my dad's side, I had a Lt. Col. Lawson B. Hovis who fought on the Confederate side of the Civil War.
And then, my dad's good friend's dad stepped on a landmine in either WW2 or Vietnam.
Originally posted by FunkMaster Flex
Whoa. How do you know that about the Revolution?
My father's father was obsessed with our heritage...He spent all the money he made researching our family tree....Well, to say the least he suceeded...We have a family tree that can date back to the 1600's (When my family first came to America)
That's why I call him my father's father...He was hadn't the time to be a grand father to me.
My uncle's (by marraige) uncle was in WWII, also in Iwo Jima I think. He was involved in a firefight, and killed a high ranking officer. The high ranking officers have swords that they carry. It turns out, that how he killed the guy was he shot the guy's sword. The bullet went through the metal sheath, shattered the sword, and exited the sheath. He took the sword as a token. My uncle is in possesion of it now. I got to hold what is left of it. It's pretty cool.
Originally posted by Darth Macabre
It's good to hear people from the other side of the war...Do you know what division or anything he was in?
Not really, he died when I was really young, I only know what my dead told me that he was on a submarine...and that he at least claimed he had never shot killed somebody in the war...who knows if that's true....
My grandfather fled Italy at the age of 15 between WWI and WWII and came to the US. During WWI, he went back and saw how poor everyone was. He took for himself a wife back in Italy who before WWI was one of the wealthiest families in the area....They didn't like Mussolini at all.
The rest of my relatives there fled to South America....Argentina.
On my mothers side where her grandmother was a Cherokee, was a disturbing time........probably ended up on that "Trail of Tears" my mother told me..............