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mininghorn88

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  1. This right here. Enjoying the tidbits and reminders. I am all for this.
  2. I believe that I have posted these here somewhere in the past. These are uniforms of soldiers that particpated in D-Day. They survived training. They survived storming the beach. They survived the day. They would survive many more days of combat and uncertainty until the surrender comes in May 1945. Many would not rotate home until late 1945 or early 1946. Many being overseas for two years or more. They were all survivors and badasses. One became a POW (newspaper clip below). All uniforms are ID'd. Co. B, 12th IR, 4th ID. WIA July 1944 357th IR, 90th ID. Became a POW later in the war but escaped. I will have to find the rest of the clipping. 505th PIR, 82nd Airborne. Was air dropped in. 1st ID 101st Airborne. Air dropped in. 56th Signal Battalion, 5th Corps 29th ID
  3. OK, I am going to try to stay away from this thread while at work on the 6th. Too damn dusty for me.
  4. As most know the invasion was originally planned for an earlier date but poor weather delayed the invasion. The below original photos are from my collection. They were taken on May 25 on board of the USS Ancon which was the flagship for the US invasion on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Top brass for the US and the British were on board for an inspection pre-invasion. Some of the dignitaries included Admiral Hall , Admiral Ramsey, Field Marshall Montgomery and King Henry VI. In addition to these photos I have many more from the crew of the USS Ancon. Admiral Ramsey and Admiral Hall
  5. For reference: The maroon Jeep is parked. The blue SUV is backing out.
  6. 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.
  7. Looks like a bunch of $1 bills. Still though. Be careful of the path.
  8. 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.
  9. BL, please go on and tell us all about it so that we do not have to watch it.
  10. Somehow it is going to be the bull’s fault for not listening to her.
  11. I have watched and shared this video probably a dozen times. It cracks me up and makes me smile every time. He speaks the truth.
  12. As if there aren’t already enough reasons to remind me to stay out of the ocean.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. I have to use this phrase way too often.
  16. 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.
  17. The Cadillac was the last one to park.
  18. 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.
  19. 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?
  20. Going with the typical theme of Surlys, the inspection is past due, therefore, I would not drive it.
  21. 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.
  22. I don’t think that is a function of this one either. That may be the super deluxe model.
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