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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 12:03 AM Original message |
In what way did WWII affect you the most? |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
1. My father was on the first ship into the harbor after Hiroshima. He might not have picked up the |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
2. It turned the man who would become my father... |
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Suich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 12:49 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. I'm so sorry, Kutjara... |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 01:36 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Thanks Suich. |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 01:20 AM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Did you watch the The War? |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 01:42 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Unfortunately, I've managed to miss it so far... |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
3. My parents both enlisted after I was born in 1941 |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
4. I would have been able to meet more of my relatives |
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Fredda Weinberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 12:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. .. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
5. Is it just me or is all this jizzing over the Good War a lot like what happened before Iraq started? |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 12:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation splashed in Jan 1999 |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
6. My Father was a Navy Doctor |
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parasim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
8. It affected my relationship with my dad mostly... |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 12:33 AM Response to Original message |
9. it gave me the false assumption for most of my life |
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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 12:37 AM Response to Original message |
10. I wouldn't exist in another way |
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rAVES (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 01:46 AM Response to Original message |
16. I would be writing this in German.. |
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Bobbieo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 02:00 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. I think the most memorable thing about WW2 - the aftermath- |
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Spinzonner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 02:05 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Don't flatter youself |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 02:20 AM Response to Original message |
19. the bombing caused lifelong scars to my English mum |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 02:20 AM Response to Original message |
20. I Grew Up In The Shadow Of This War |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 02:47 AM Response to Original message |
21. I wouldn't have been born if not for WWII |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 02:55 AM Response to Original message |
22. My father was in the Signal Corps, and never saw combat |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 04:51 AM Response to Original message |
23. If there had been no attack on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 05:00 AM Response to Original message |
24. My folks also met becasue of the war. . . |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 06:42 AM Response to Original message |
25. I lost my father. |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 06:53 AM Response to Original message |
26. I probably wouldn't exist either - my parents met in the Navy. nt |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-03-07 07:30 AM Response to Original message |
27. Parents |
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