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Originally Posted by George Page
July 4th, 2021would be my deceased father’s 100th birthday. He passed at 87 and was a WWII veteran who, at age of 17, was deployed to the South Pacific and spent 3 Christmases in a fox hole. I will be flying the flag that draped his coffin for the 1st time on his birthday this year with the hope that future generations will fly it again on his 200th birthday. Happy Birthday Dad!
Thanks alone are not enough for the GREATEST GENERATION.
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Excellent! Those people who came of age in the 20's and 30's, and served, bled and died for this country, can never be thanked in proportion to what they did.
My dad, also: he served in the Pacific and was part of the force that liberated the Santo Tomas prison camp in Manila, later being a part of the post-war army of occupation in Japan. He carried shrapnel in his body from two wounds to his grave.
I will recall his funeral for the rest of my life; particularly in the respect shown. The commander of his American Legion post, an ex-Marine who could barely walk even with two quad-canes, made his way to the front of the church, put aside his canes, drew himself up to his full height and saluted Dad's casket. You could see the pain in his face, but that didn't matter to him.
I echo your sentiment. Thanks alone are not enough.