The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, Randall Jarrell
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, Randall Jarrell
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
felexsanders (05-26-2019)
Read that poem in college.
Then when I was hospitalized after my surgery they put me in rehab. The first man, already there, had been medically discharged from the Marines after a Japanese soldier stich ed a line of bullets across his chest with a machine gun. That man was 95.
A couple of days later another old man came in, also 95, who was mostly deaf...because he was a ball turret gunner in WWII. over aeuope. Hearing protection wasn't a thing back then.
Last edited by Sergeant Gleed; 05-21-2019 at 10:32 AM.
Freedom Requires Obstinance.
We the People DID NOT vote in a majority Rodent Congress, they stole it via election fraud.
felexsanders (05-26-2019)