Comments on: VETERAN’S DAY, 2008 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/11/11/veterans-day-2008/ Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:11:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Raine http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/11/11/veterans-day-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-4709 Raine Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:59:36 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/11/11/veterans-day-2008/#comment-4709 Wow, Suzanne. Such experiences! Gallipoli? Good Lord. Talk about scarring... My grandfather was in WWI. He never talked about it, but when he was old and blind he insisted on eating out of the dish he'd brought home from the Army with him... And my dad had bad dreams about WWII 'til the day he died. He told us about some of his tour in the Pacific. It was the stuff of nightmares. Wow, Suzanne. Such experiences! Gallipoli? Good Lord. Talk about scarring…

My grandfather was in WWI. He never talked about it, but when he was old and blind he insisted on eating out of the dish he’d brought home from the Army with him…

And my dad had bad dreams about WWII ’til the day he died. He told us about some of his tour in the Pacific. It was the stuff of nightmares.

]]> By: Raine http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/11/11/veterans-day-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-4708 Raine Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:55:46 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/11/11/veterans-day-2008/#comment-4708 Bernard, that photo just DOES something to me. (searching for tissue now...) Bernard, that photo just DOES something to me.
(searching for tissue now…)

]]> By: Suzanne Perazzini http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/11/11/veterans-day-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-4707 Suzanne Perazzini Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:39:00 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/11/11/veterans-day-2008/#comment-4707 My grandfather, God rest his soul, went through the whole of World War I on the front including the disastrous Gallipoli and The Somme. He was injured at one point, sent to a hospital for a few weeks and then sent straight back to the front. He was in the cavalry and they were sent on a death charge against the enemy on his 21st birthday. Most of his mates were killed that day. It's no wonder it took him 60 years before he could start to talk about it. My grandfather, God rest his soul, went through the whole of World War I on the front including the disastrous Gallipoli and The Somme. He was injured at one point, sent to a hospital for a few weeks and then sent straight back to the front. He was in the cavalry and they were sent on a death charge against the enemy on his 21st birthday. Most of his mates were killed that day. It’s no wonder it took him 60 years before he could start to talk about it.

]]> By: BernardL http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/11/11/veterans-day-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-4706 BernardL Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:34:01 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/11/11/veterans-day-2008/#comment-4706 That is a most excellent photo, and it says it all. That is a most excellent photo, and it says it all.

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