VI Corps Engineers 1941 Carolina Maneuvars
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Thanks Marion! Wasn't that funny? There's lots of other amusing detail in that

book. I've got lots of photos of my Dad "on manuevars". I have one which I didn't

recognize as him at first because he & his buddies are all covered in some white

substance. I killed myself laughing after I read that bags of flour were used as unrealistic

grenades during the manuevars, and the men often got carried away "killing" each other

with them. Must've been sort of a GI pillow fight. They were supposed to hurl the flour

grenades at Patton's tanks and an umpire would declare the tank "blown up".

 

I'm very certain that your Dad Walt and my dad Frank are nudging each other

in heaven & saying: "that's my girl Marion!" and "that's my girl Mary Ann!".

I wonder what kind of beer they have in heaven. When I was a kid, my Dad

drank either Schlitz or the local Carling Black label. He'd have a beer after mowing the lawn,

and my brother Fran & I would ask to try some. After a sip, Fran always made a disgusted face,

but not me! I wanted another sip which my father always got a kick out of, but my mother

would be APPALLED & remonstrate with him not to offer me any more.

Ha! Too late! To this day - I do love beer!

 

Shortly after my mother died, I dreamed that I was with her in a house and

I heard footsteps on the 2nd floor & asked: Is Daddy here, Ma?" and she rolled her

eyes in mock annoyance & smiled & said: "Oh YES, dear. Your father IS here."

I woke up at that moment & laughed! I think it was my mother's way of letting her know

they were together again.

 

Here's a photo of me as a baby with Dad. I was born in 1953 - their first born 13 months

after they were married.

 

Mary Ann

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VI Corps Engineers 1941 Carolina Maneuvars - by 206thmpco - 08-03-2007, 12:12 PM

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