Random Stuff

Posted By Blackfive

My parents are moving soon.  So, yesterday, I spent a lot of time helping them get their things in order (which is why there was light posting).  One of my tasks was to go through about 20 boxes of stuff that I had stored in their attic.  They are moving into a smaller house (no need for four extra bedrooms for us boys). 

Among the boxes of stuff that have been in my parents attic for over ten years:

1.  One set of dog-tags that had a .45 bullet (with a hole drilled though it) strung with parachute cord. 

Mrs. Blackfive:  "Why is there a BULLET on your dog tags?"

Blackfive:  "When I was a smart-ass Second Lieutenant, my Colonel gave this to me and told me, that whenever I felt like making a sarcastic remark, to bite the bullet and shut the hell up."

2.  A copy of "A Paratrooper's Faith".  It's a reproduced pocket book with psalms and poems that were carried by Sergeant George Tullidge who was killed in the invasion of France on June 8th, 1944.  He was wounded and took over a machine-gun position over the road from St. Mere Eglise and held off the German counter attack allowing his wounded troopers to be rescued.  He died of his wounds and never left his post to seek medical attention.  Sergeant Tullidge's mother had compiled the contents by hand in a notebook.

3.  A lot of pictures.  One picture of me and Matt Schram at an Officer's Club Halloween Party.

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Random Stuff

My parents are moving soon.  So, yesterday, I spent a lot of time helping them get their things in order (which is why there was light posting).  One of my tasks was to go through about 20 boxes of stuff that I had stored in their attic.  They are moving into a smaller house (no need for four extra bedrooms for us boys). 

Among the boxes of stuff that have been in my parents attic for over ten years:

1.  One set of dog-tags that had a .45 bullet (with a hole drilled though it) strung with parachute cord. 

Mrs. Blackfive:  "Why is there a BULLET on your dog tags?"

Blackfive:  "When I was a smart-ass Second Lieutenant, my Colonel gave this to me and told me, that whenever I felt like making a sarcastic remark, to bite the bullet and shut the hell up."

2.  A copy of "A Paratrooper's Faith".  It's a reproduced pocket book with psalms and poems that were carried by Sergeant George Tullidge who was killed in the invasion of France on June 8th, 1944.  He was wounded and took over a machine-gun position over the road from St. Mere Eglise and held off the German counter attack allowing his wounded troopers to be rescued.  He died of his wounds and never left his post to seek medical attention.  Sergeant Tullidge's mother had compiled the contents by hand in a notebook.

3.  A lot of pictures.  One picture of me and Matt Schram at an Officer's Club Halloween Party.

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