Family Military Traditions

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My 2 sons aked what their Great Grandad did during the war. They both laughed when told that he was a Sergeant in charge of several packs of Donkeys in Burma.  A few weeks later while watching World at War they were talking about the war in the jungle and showed skinny men up to their waist's in mud trying to persuade packs of Donkeys to carry huge loads of munitions and food through the Burmese jungle. Lawrence Olivier then told us that without the Donkeys  the Allied troops would have lost their foot hold in the Asian peninsula to the Japanese.  The pride on those 2 young faces wss a joy to see, I just wish their Great Grandad was around to talk to us about it.