12-01-14, 12:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-01-14, 03:06 PM by fazersharp.)
I feel an even more direct connection with the war as it was my Dad, my parents had me late in life they were in there 40s and so I am now still under 50, my dad would never talk about it but sometimes spoke about practical jokes he would play on his mates and how he would swap his ciggy ration for chocolate as he never smoked.
He and my Mum met befor the war and my mum worked in an ammunitions factory
He joined at 19 narrowly missed going to both Burma and Africa (which he was relieved about ) as we look back we now know those places were bad but they also knew it then.
He did go to France Belgum and Germany
As a kid I remember he would always watch WW2 documentaries and how I would hate them boring, but what I would give now to sit down and watch them with him. He was never interested in collecting his service medals as he saw no point, he died after seeing all his children grow up and have their own children and when he died we applied for his medals and they now sit in a frame in my house.
He and my Mum met befor the war and my mum worked in an ammunitions factory
He joined at 19 narrowly missed going to both Burma and Africa (which he was relieved about ) as we look back we now know those places were bad but they also knew it then.
He did go to France Belgum and Germany
As a kid I remember he would always watch WW2 documentaries and how I would hate them boring, but what I would give now to sit down and watch them with him. He was never interested in collecting his service medals as he saw no point, he died after seeing all his children grow up and have their own children and when he died we applied for his medals and they now sit in a frame in my house.
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.