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lapfog_1

(31,212 posts)
Fri Feb 2, 2024, 03:21 PM Feb 2024

goddamnit - I can't watch this [View all]

Biden at the dignified transfer

Something Nixon didn't do for my brother!

As I get older, I think more about the lives stolen in that useless war.

All I remember is the grey sedan showing up in the afternoon one day with the 2 officers in dress uniforms... I didn't even notice that one was a Navy Chaplain. My parents weren't home so I told them to come back at 6pm... It was August. I thought they were there to tell my parents that I was accepted at Annapolis. I was accepted but they weren't there for that.

My dad was an enlisted pilot in the Navy for WW2, and my brother was an officer in the Navy.

Don't know why I think so much now about something that happened 50 years ago.

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