huckfinn1
... age he joined the 30th and went over sees and unfortunatly he was killed within 25 miles of where his father had died 25 years ago. That was the most unfortunate set of circumstances I believe that I have ever heard of and so we picked her because she had lost family in both WW! And WWII to be our gold star mother and she has since died and she did her job great she would contact people that had lost sons or husbands she worked with the veterans hospital in Birmingham up untill maybee this year or two when she died. Every body loved her she made a quilt that had this insignia on it and I was fortunate enough to have a raffle ticket she just made one a year I guess probably it was for 15 years and I got one of them and I still got it. I have another prized posession. One time we came across a room full of German battle flags and a battle flag is different than the flag that your used to thinking of which is of coarse just that red flag with a black swastica in the middle of it the battle flag has right ther in the middle of it a black iron cross well I got one of those its about 7 feet by 14 feet and I will probably give it to the corp at A&M but I don't see how they can display it. The corp has a museum down there at A&M but that would offend a lot of people. I have given them a bunch of stuff form WWII. A: What do you remember most from your experience with the war? B: Well, I guess it would have to be during the battle of the bulge it was cold, miserable and the clothes that the army had issued us were not really for that kind of weather. I got a bad case of frostbite and fever but I didn't loose anything but it didn't occur to me until the battle of the bulge was over we came back to Normandy and it was my first night inside of a house I had been inside of one probably but didn't stay in one in probably a month. I had just been living in a hole in the ground. My feet started burning and of coarse then suddenly I knew there was something wrong and so I next morning I went to the town aid station and the Captain's name was captain Nealson. It is amazing how you can remember peoples names like that. He looked at my feet and the first thing that he said was sargeant you've got a bad case of frost bit feet and my question to him was well what can you do for it and I said as long as I am not in somewhere where its warm my feet don't bother me and he said well since your going to have to be inside and sleep in houses and things like that for a while the best thing that I could do is before I went to sleep to take off my combat boots and walk around in the snow barefooted for about two or three minutes and I couldn't say that's about the dumbest thing that I've ever heard not to a captain so I thought well I will try it and it worked and for a period of about four weeks every night when I got in where it was going to be warm I would go outside barefooted and walk in the snow and well of coarse everybody thought that I was crazy but my medic had gone with me and he told every body that I hadn't gone off the deep end it worked and I was not bothered by it exept well maybe when the war was over for about 3 or 4 years my feet would get real hot in the middle of the summer but I havn't had any problems with it since. The worst thing that I got out of the war was being too close to too many big explosions. I went to a doctor about it and he gave me a whole bunch of test and said that my ears were fairly severely damaged and he gave me some hearing aids that I wear sometimes but the problem with the hearing aid is if there is any wind the noise overrides everything else. I can hear the external noise the hearing aid picks it up it makes it hard for me to talk but I've learned to live with it it doesn't bother me. At one house we were firing machine guns from the second floor the Germans were trying to advance on us. We were giving them a hard time. We had them pinned down, everytime one of them moved we would get on them very quickly with one of our machine guns and we had seen a German tank and this room had two big windows with about a four foot brick… the house was built out of stone and brick and this German tank shot one round fortunatly for us it was about five feet from that room he hit that four ...