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  1. 11 hours ago, Mez2 said:

    Well,  if he threw quarters then it would be aggravated assault 

    I have tossed and stuck landings with loonies and toonies in Canada.  Something about using USDs, exchange rate, conversion fees just did not seem right at the time.

  2. You can take the Grand Canyon Railroad from Williams to the Grand Canyon. Once there you can take the shuttle to the major overlooks. You will be on site for two to three hours before the train takes you back to Williams. The train and shuttle can be booked together.

    My GF and I did this a couple of years ago and will be doing it again late October.

  3. On 5/15/2024 at 10:54 AM, wild_turkey said:

    A patient of mine, roughly mid-70s gentleman, said he is going to France for D-Day to accompany a friend who is a WW2 vet. The friend is 103 years old and was there during D-Day, so they are going to tour and there are some memorials and such. He said there is a group of vets that gets to do this every year and their trip is sponsored and entirely paid for by American Airlines. Each vet gets to take one friend or family member to help them with travel needs. They have an entire flight from the U.S. to Paris dedicated to this group of guys, and they stay 9 days and have all transportation, hotels, meals, tours, etc. paid for by AA. I think that's pretty damn cool for everyone involved and kuddos to AA for doing it.

    Delta Airlines does it too. Right now they are showing a short 3 minute and an 8 minute clip of WW2 vets going to Normandy on their in-flight entertainment. It is amazing how dusty it can get at 35,000 feet.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

    My father was a Sherman tank commander in the 9th Armored Division.   In late August 1944 the 9th took the Queen Mary to England, where they were ultimately stationed across from the Pais-de-Calais as part of Operation Fortitude, the plan to deceive the Germans about our upcoming invasion site. 

    They were subsequently sent to Belgium and the sleepy Ardennes so that the new unit could get acclimated.  Oops.  My dad spent December 16-24 holding back the Germans at the small crossroad town of St. Vith - IOW just in time for the start of the Battle of the Bulge.

    this photo is an aerial view of the small town showing artillery craters in the snow.

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    Christmas Eve day the 9th were able to meet up with a thin corridor of 82nd airborne and escape to safety after delaying the Germans for a week, completely upsetting their timetable. According to the German general commanding those troops, it was more harmful to their plans than the much publicized Bastogne event.

    As a Christmas present the next day, the allies destroyed the entire town and it’s crossroads by Air.  See below.

     

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    While it is Belgium, St. Vith was a part of Prussia before World War I, and the people were German speaking. Hitler took back that part of Belgium before World War III, and so all of the townspeople had relatives in the German Wehrmacht.  When I was there in 2019 for the 75th anniversary, there was nothing to indicate the US Army had ever been there. Contrast that with 20 clicks south and Bastogne, that had American flags everywhere, World War II museums and statues of Patton.

    One Belgian town was French and welcoming, and the other Belgian town nearby was German and still passively hostile to American visitors for completely destroying their town.

    A couple of 9th AD uniforms from my collection. The officer uniform is from a soldier that received a battlefield commission as a 2nd LT and served in the 193rd Field Artillery.  I am not sure what unit the enlisted 9th AD soldier served in.  I do have the names of both soldiers.

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  5. Just watched this today on a flight from ATL to Seattle. Like posted above, the Tom Sawyer song brought back tons of memories of my youth watching the Von Erichs and also local wrestling from the Hirsch Colosseum in Shreveport on tv.

    I enjoyed the movie for what it was able to deliver in the amount of time. Would like to see a mini-series too.

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  6. On 2/12/2024 at 3:17 PM, Scheiss Meister said:

    As someone who goes by his middle name I support this message.

    I am celebrating a major anniversary at work next week. I told HR a couple of months ago that if the name that I go by wasn’t on the certificate then I wasn’t accepting it. The certificates come from our corporate office so who knows what will be on there. I further told HR that I didn’t care if they had to white it out and hand write it in. We will see what happens but I feel like I am going to be disappointed since I most likely will leave the reception without a certificate.

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  7. I am not sure where to put this?  Either here are in "Trivial Things That Make You Surly".

    I went to Hobby Lobby this past Saturday looking for some bookends.  I looked in what I thought would be a logical location for them but did not find any.  I found two young employees and asked them if they had any bookends.  Neither one of them knew what bookends were.  I found myself describing to them what bookends were and what they typically look like.  You would have thought that I was describing quantum physics to them.  Does anyone read or keep books anymore?

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  8. 15 hours ago, Party_Taco said:

    Caught this beauty at Central Market this evening… betting that it belongs to a member of the Najo Average Orchestra playing there tonight…

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    Going with the typical theme of Surlys, the inspection is past due, therefore, I would not drive it.

  9. 2 hours ago, troph said:

    Christian Bale and his family, but we wouldn’t acknowledge we knew who they were. Flew from the Brando on a puddle jumper to Tahiti then Covid tested together then got on the plane in business class on air Tahiti and flew to LA together. I mostly talked to his wife. He’s a cool dude and was super attentive to his kids the whole time. Seemed like an A+ dude.

    My base airport is the same airport as a prominent sportscaster and US Congressman.  I see both of them often enough that we recognize each other and pass casual comments or if we sit next to each other on the flights we converse a bit during the flight.  One of them is Tim Brando. I know, I know. He does like Sark and the Horns in general. I guess the effect of his usual OU broadcast partner has some voodoo on him during the games. The other is Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Of course he is not flying commercial anymore I guess since I have not seen him since the week before his appointment.

  10. 1 hour ago, huge said:

    I have an Axent ONE and this remote beats the shit out of mine.

    I don’t think that is a function of this one either. That may be the super deluxe model.

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  11. 12 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    I know this show is extremely accurate, and if everything just one thing in that last episode actually happened, HOLY FUCK

     

     

    amazing series. Gave me even more appreciation for those men and people that lived during that time

    FIFY.

    They were young men (some just boys) and women doing extraodinary things.

  12. 9 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    Mining,

    I really hope your will specifies which WWII musuem gets all of your stuff.   Please, please, please don't let someone toss all of that in the trash one day.  Might possibly even document it all and then send that list to the museum's curator you pick and let them know it exists.  

    Yes, I have spreadsheets and “values” of most of my collection. All of my uniforms are well documented with whatever history I could find on the respective soldier through family members, unit histories, Ancestry.com, Fold3, and Newspaper.com.

    I have heard horror stories about donating to museums. Unless you have Eisenhower’s uniform or something like that it most likely will end up in the basement or some other storage area only to be sold at a later date by the museum. I would prefer my kids and grandkids get the money if they elect not to want it. They can sell it off or I will liquidate it one day. I just want to make sure the groups stay together and that we keep the family stuff.

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  13. Not sure about WWIII but if we go to war with India it is probably my fault. I just pissed half the plane off while I was de-boarding in a proper manner from Raipur to Delhi. A casual backpack adjustment sent the multitude shoving me forward into a startled reverse domino effect.

  14. On 3/13/2024 at 7:31 AM, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Man this thread died ignanimously.  Dragged my 20 year old Mahindra out of the barn yesterday and started cleaning it up.   Needs a bunch of electrical work but still runs like a beast.

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    Looking forward to my 4 year old grandson climbing all over it tomorrow.

    I am currently in India so this hits close to home.

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