RE: an arteest

It's astounding how the lives of my American generation, most of whom are
all but oblivious to war, have been shaped by war in the past two
generations alone. Myself for example, my father's father was captured in
the Battle of the Buldge, was listed MIA while my grandmother was pregnant
with my aunt, and survived three months in POW camp, to later be freed by
his own infantry. My father is a boomer, born in 1950. He was drafted for
Vietnam in 1971 and was about to head north when he won his final (forth, I
believe) appeal to achieve conscientious objector status.
Oh, so many amazing stories lie within, but the point is that most of my
generation feel untouched by war, when we are more fortunate to be alive
and well today than we realize.

JPB

                                                                                                                     
                    Yocum Daniel GS 21
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My grand father was a Seabee (US Navy equivalent to the Army Engineers), I
followed in his footsteps. You know; 'We build, we fight, we party all
night". My dad was regular Navy, Gunners Mate aboard an LSD in Vietnam.
Many of my great uncles (I have a huge family on my mom's side, I have over
100 first cousins that I grew up with, some whom served in the first gulf
war) fought in Bataan or Europe.

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: John P Baumgardner [mailto:BaumgaJP@stvinc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 11:24 AM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: RE: an arteest

Hey Daniel,

My grandfather also fought at Guadalcanal, Marines, 1st Division if I'm not
mistaken. Any chance your grandfather was of the same?

JPB

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