[MtnCat]

RIP Pte Jack Mansell

Operation Market Garden, POW, saboteur, and after the war, solid British workman. Pretty cool.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/10529902/Wartime-bullet-found-lodged-in-hip-of-dead-WWII-veteran-after-69-years.html

 

[Ricekila]

Nice -- very nice --

 

[Demianu27]

I often find myself looking at old disabled people thinking about how lame they are, often forgetting what they've been through in their lives.

Market Garden? That's crazy. I couldn't imagine being there. Thank you sir!

 

[Goblin X]

I still have my uncles Flag and shell casings (21 gun salute) in a place of honor at my home, day by day we are losing more and more of the generation of Honorable men, and most around them have little or no interest of what they have been thru, or what they have done..... Rest in peace, Jack Mansell

 

[John_Auberry]

Its funny how those old vets would get shot come home and have a career there whole lives, and now days some many solders are disabled for the littlest things. I worked with a guy for a long while untill he was approved for his army disability. He had Post-traumatic stress disorder even though he never saw combat. Not sure how he worked for 2 years until he got approved.

 

[joes]

Its funny how those old vets would get shot come home and have a career there whole lives, and now days some many solders are disabled for the littlest things. I worked with a guy for a long while untill he was approved for his army disability. He had Post-traumatic stress disorder even though he never saw combat. Not sure how he worked for 2 years until he got approved.

I wonder how he got a disability for PTSD without seeing combat !!!!!!!!

 

[siege571]

I still have my uncles Flag and shell casings (21 gun salute) in a place of honor at my home, day by day we are losing more and more of the generation of Honorable men, and most around them have little or no interest of what they have been thru, or what they have done..... Rest in peace, Jack Mansell

Indeed. About 8 years ago when my son was about 9, we found ourselves riding a shuttle bus with an elderly gentleman who was a WWII vet. I made sure my son shook his hand so he could know for the rest of his life that he shook the hand of a WWII vet.

 

[Harmless Drudge]

RIP Pte Jack Mansell

Operation Market Garden, POW, saboteur, and after the war, solid British workman. Pretty cool.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/10529902/Wartime-bullet-found-lodged-in-hip-of-dead-WWII-veteran-after-69-years.html

Let's hoping the family doesn't get arrested on weapons charges for the bullet.

 

[Harmless Drudge]

Its funny how those old vets would get shot come home and have a career there whole lives, and now days some many solders are disabled for the littlest things. I worked with a guy for a long while untill he was approved for his army disability. He had Post-traumatic stress disorder even though he never saw combat. Not sure how he worked for 2 years until he got approved.

They were real men, as opposed to the 30-year-old Peter Pans we raise today.

 

[siege571]

They were real men, as opposed to the 30-year-old Peter Pans we raise today.

 

[Grogan14]

I often find myself looking at old disabled people thinking about how lame they are...

I never find myself doing this. We'll all be there at some point.

 

[siege571]

I never find myself doing this. We'll all be there at some point.

Indeed. I look at old people and I think of all they've seen and all they know.

 

[Grogan14]

That is spot on! And, truly disgusting.

 

[Catapult]

My old man was a II vet and drank 10 cups of coffee a day. I'm pretty sure if I had ever held a coffee cup like metrosexual-boy he would have back handed me against a wall!

 

[Nomad 2nd]

Its funny how those old vets would get shot come home and have a career there whole lives, and now days some many solders are disabled for the littlest things. I worked with a guy for a long while untill he was approved for his army disability. He had Post-traumatic stress disorder even though he never saw combat. Not sure how he worked for 2 years until he got approved.

Actually it's that so many more are surviving wounds which would have resulted in their death prior to body armor, and helicopter evacs. To say nothing of flights to Germany.

Evening of Nov 11, 2004. I was in the ditch on the side of the road working on a guy who suffered from an IED injury.

Before the sun was up he was at the hospital in Germany.

 

[usmc0341]

That's a hard mother****er

 

[elliott264]

My old man was a II vet and drank 10 cups of coffee a day. I'm pretty sure if I had ever held a coffee cup like metrosexual-boy he would have back handed me against a wall!

hate to break it to ya but its not coffee pajama boy is holding....its hot chocolate.

hot chockywit to go with hiz jam-jamz :upsidedown:

 

[Catapult]

hate to break it to ya but its not coffee pajama boy is holding....its hot chocolate.

hot chockywit to go with hiz jam-jamz :upsidedown:

Oh hell, that makes it even worse. That picture is wrong on so many levels.

 

[bjcarpetguy]

My Dad was a WWII vet. His Dad a WWI. Last year My oldest grandson turned 18 and joined the National Gard. I presented him with both of their Funeral Flags, My daughter had
them cleaned and framed for him when he got back from boot.

 

[sardog]

Oh hell, that makes it even worse. That picture is wrong on so many levels.

Between that and Obammy on his unisex bike w/helmet, how could the world not laugh at us ? :xeye: