I'm so old I Remember when:

[RoyalChick]

I had to see what it looked like.
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Gorgeous!

 

[Smoked Brisket]

Gorgeous!

Not what I pictured but it got 37 mpg and only had a 25 hp engine.
(A WWII jeep had twice that.)
Also read that the price included a man to spend 2 days, 20 miles out in the country to teach him to operate it.

 

[MROO]

My husband's uncle served in 'Nam. Front lines. He saw some major "stuff". I say "stuff" because what I want to say will be censored. He is finally going back in January. It took him this long to be mentally ok to go back. God Bless him on his trip

My uncle was one of the troops rescued by Patton at The Battle of the Bulge. He never, EVER spoke of it and would sullenly shut down whenever the topic was even alluded to. It's hard to imagine something so traumatic that my big, boisterous uncle collapsed at its mere mention. It had to have been horrific.

 

[TXchickmum]

My uncle was one of the troops rescued by Patton at The Battle of the Bulge. He never, EVER spoke of it and would sullenly shut down whenever the topic was even alluded to. It's hard to imagine something so traumatic that my big, boisterous uncle collapsed at its mere mention. It had to have been horrific.

Indeed. My great uncle served in combat in Korea. Same thing. He witnessed a lot. He never spoke a word.

 

[MROO]

And I do remember an icebox, and the ice storage market where we got the ice blocks all summer. At my aunt's summer log cabin in NW Wisconsin, before it had either electricity or a phone.
Great for me as a child, and wouldn't want to live there in winter.
Mary

At least you wouldn't have to make trips to the ice market in January!

 

[Smoked Brisket]

My uncle was one of the troops rescued by Patton at The Battle of the Bulge. He never, EVER spoke of it and would sullenly shut down whenever the topic was even alluded to. It's hard to imagine something so traumatic that my big, boisterous uncle collapsed at its mere mention. It had to have been horrific.

Yes. My FIL was in Korea, artillery. He would tell stories about those days but I noticed he always steered away from the actual combat stories.
I was lucky to work with a lot of WWII vets. The stories they could tell when they did open up.

 

[TXchickmum]

Yes. My FIL was in Korea, artillery. He would tell stories about those days but I noticed he always steered away from the actual combat stories.
I was lucky to work with a lot of WWII vets. The stories they could tell when they did open up.

Powerful stuff.

 

[Smoked Brisket]

Powerful stuff.

I was an apprentice to a couple of WWII vets.
One was entitled to wear a pair of earrings by the Navy. (he didn't)
He had his ship sunk, rescued, and that ship sunk.

 

[Smoked Brisket]

Another was captured at the Battle of the Bulge.
They were being marched to the POW camp but every mile they would pull the entire first row to the side and execute them.
He said he was in the first row when he entered the camp.

 

[TXchickmum]

Another was captured at the Battle of the Bulge.
They were being marched to the POW camp but every mile they would pull the entire first row to the side and execute them.
He said he was in the first row when he entered the camp.

No words..... Sobering.