Great post AgSurfer, thank you!
OT: "Old" people stories
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Y'all with love this. This is my oldest brother's Father who served in Corregidor, and was in the death march of Bataan. Charles Agostinelli, PFC. Rescued from Osaka, Japan on September 4th, 1945. Also, a Purple Heart recipient. My own brother has never seen this until today when I sent it to him.
I was on a tin can not real big as ships go we hit a hurricane and wow it was like we were a cork in the ocean luckily that was the only one we hit and when you get in the middle it was like a nice summer day I couldn't believe it!
I’ve not heard the term “tin can”
In a very long time. My dad was a gunner on a tin can and shot at Kamikazes several times in choice locations like Tarawa. His ship got nipped by tumbling kamikaze and he lived to tell me about it.
Amazing that you and many others were given life by sheer good luck and untold thousands and millions never had a chance for life because of sheer bad luck. It's humbling when you think about it.
I always associate the terms “good luck” and “bad luck” with pure random chance, but maybe I misinterpreted what you meant. Wouldn’t be the first time!
I was a gunners mate as well!when we were anchored off the coast of Nam we always had 2 guys on watch at night we had to throw grenades in the water once in while to keep divers from putting a bomb on the bottom of the ship!
Right on! And Cael Sanderson is one of the best NCAA wrestling coaches of the last 10 years! 😉😀
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I was in the Navy for 4 yrs thought I didn't really much like it but whem I got out and thought about it I had a great time and met some of the finest men I ever knew!
Thanks guys for the catch! I am going to google how to get my phone’s spell check to know the word Cael. That information should be taught at the orientation for new members.
No big deal and I had forgotten the exchange until I just saw it. People often make their own luck, whether good or bad. You know what they say. The luckiest people are the most prepared. Pure randon luck is getting a flat tire on the way to the airport and missing the flight that crashes two hours later. Some would call that God's Will, but from my lowly perch it looks a lot like exceptionally good luck.
This is exactly what keeps those of us that survived a combat tour awake at night.
I feel for you guys. I cannot imagine.
I may have mentioned this before but I have a friend who is a top level cyclist in CA. While he was training a few years ago, a truck ran a stop sign and he hit it at about 25 mph and broke both legs. He was rushed to the ER and they did a CT scan for internal organ damage. Everything came back OK, but the doctor told him there was a small spot on his kidney that he might want to check out. He had a biopsy done and it was cancer. Since it was small, they just removed part of his kidney and he was fine.
Kidney cancer is deadly and you don’t have any symptoms until it’s too late. As strange as it sounds, the person who ran the stop sign actually saved my friend’s life!
Kidney cancer might have no glaring symptoms but you know something just isn't right. Ask him if he had a gut feeling and didn't get it checked out. CT scan for anyone should be available at least every 5 years.
this may seem odd but now I am almost 74 and still wake up thinking I am still on board that ship firing the big guns!
It’s the Rangers motto. The story of its origin is pretty cool. Here’s the story right out of Wikipedia:
The motto "Rangers lead the way!" dates from 6 June 1944, during the Normandy Landings on Dog White sector of Omaha Beach. Then Brigadier General Norman Cota (assistant CO of the 29th ID) calmly walked towards Maj. Max Schneider (CO of the 5th Ranger Battalion) while under heavy machine gun fire and asked "What outfit is this?" Someone yelled "5th Rangers!" To this, Cota replied "Well then Goddammit, Rangers! Lead the way!"[24]
This was the beginning of where the troops moved up through one of the draws and came around behind the Germans. Once the beach exit was opened, the German defense began to collapse. I’m sure that Bill Koll was a witness and possible participant for all of these events.
BTW, General Cota is the character who was played by Robert Mitchum in The Longest Day.
hey guys how about an old man wrestling story,Back in the days of Rick Sanders if anyone knows of him well he had his own way of doing things.Any ways The guy that lead Pa wrestling back then was Tom Canavan he also owned a bar and one day was there having a beer and he got a call it ended up being the state police and they ask if he knew Rick they ask him to come down and affirm who Rick was ended up Rick was hitching down I 90 with his back pack on and that's all he was completely nude~ HE GOT THING ALL STRAIGHTENED OUT AND RICK JUST GOT A TICKET!SOUNDS JUST LIKE SOMETHING RICK WOULD DO!
Wow - I heard about that incident but forgot about it over the years. Yeah, Sanders was a real character for sure. He met a very tragic end. After the 72 Olympics in Munich, he decided to hang around and hitchhike around Europe. He was heading towards Athens when the car or truck he was riding in got into a head on collision with another vehicle. Sanders was killed in the crash. Interestingly, I was in Athens about the same time doing the same thing as Sanders. I often wonder if I would have bumped into him at any point if he hadn’t been killed.
yes when Rick got arrested he told the cop to call someone that's into wrestling!he was on route 90 just outside of Erie!
The following summer, there was a freestyle qualifier for the US team for the World championships. The qualifier was held at F&M in Lancaster so I went to watch. Prior to the tournament, some of the guys who were on the US Olympic team were showing films of the US guys in Munich. Sanders put on an amazing performance there by pinning everyone until the finals where he lost to the guy from Japan.
It was interesting hearing the commentary from the other wrestlers when the films of Sanders were shown. They said he was doing stuff they had never seen before and they were yelling at him to stop right before he ended up pinning his opponent. You can see some of his matches on YouTube. He just destroys a couple of guys and makes it look easy.
BTW, I also heard that Sanders was really buzzed on something when that happened. Probably magic mushrooms or maybe something even stronger.
Pitchfork, as an accountant over 60 your eyesight qualifies you for Ripley's Believe it or Not. Around age 50 my eyes were gone from reading Excel type screens and audit reports for 30 years.
Good for your health, you can now work well into your 90's.
Pitchfork, as an accountant over 60 your eyesight qualifies you for Ripley's Believe it or Not. Around age 50 my eyes were gone from reading Excel type screens and audit reports for 30 years.
Good for your health, you can now work well into your 90's.
Thanks. I'm guessing it's as much good fortune as my Popeye imitation that got me this far. Now of I could just get rid of C instead of having it in remission.
Yeesh. I spent most of this past week elbow deep in spreadsheet. Happy with the results, but it is mentally fatiguingPitchfork, as an accountant over 60 your eyesight qualifies you for Ripley's Believe it or Not. Around age 50 my eyes were gone from reading Excel type screens and audit reports for 30 years.
Good for your health, you can now work well into your 90's.
The young'ins don't remember Lotus 1-2-3
