Posted by j hikemper on December 30, 2013 at 20:39:15 from (50.102.3.168):
Just Have to Share this Folx ...Fanfare of the Common Man music by aron Copeland , was the parting song at the funeral home as we Loaded Uncle Bill to go to his final resting place , oh Boy , oh boy,it kinda got to me a little bit ,, that Was SO appropriate ,for Bill and all the men like My Dad who were marked for life after surviving so much ,.... Bill set up and ran the machine that cut all the bull gears for IHC Louisville tractor plant ,,.Bill raised my widowed Aunts 2 sons and their own 5 children thru everything ,coached baseball , taught and trained boxing to the young underdogs kids in the neighborhood ,, but... before all that he served gallantly and courageously from beginning to end of World War 2 ...he perfected and trained machine gunners to shoot jap zeros out of the sky during the dark dismal early days of the war in the South Pacific ,, he and my dad were boyhood pals for life but never saw one another while island hopping across the pacific , paying for real estate with blood and nerves of steel ,, Places like Solomon, marshall islands , new guina, phillipines , saipan okinawa ,new Zealand and australia., at Uncle bills funeral, my cousins and I recalled as kids that the war vets... Dad,and his brother Hank,, uncles by marriage,Bill and Jooney and Robert , were often found during family events , just hanging out and supporting one another in a gallant way ,, Jooney helped build 2 interstate bridges that crossed the ohio , mostly ,sippin beer and playing cards,admiring one anothers beautiful new cars and or trucks , farms , tractors , animals , aLl What THEY HAD WORKED THEIR TAILENDS OFF FOR , no one gave them anything except an opportunity ,,and most of all loving their children and their good wives who gave them . only Mom and Aunt Rosalie are left,, both worked at Curtis Wright riveting airplanes during the war .. what a wonderful Legacy of THE GREATEST GENERATION , All the soldiers of WW2 in my family are GONE to Their eternal reward now .. ... My PHD cousin Randal felt it very fitting to play this music ,, you can hear it on you tube ,.. thanx for reading ,,.and God Bless America ..
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