frussell
One Too Many
- Messages
- 1,409
- Location
- California Desert
Very different generation. Hard working, modest, thrifty. Successive generations have changed significantly.Yep, Perry, same as my grandpa, all the hotspots of the South Pacific. He wasn't a "young" man when he enlisted, at 31 or so, and had a wife and kids at home. True to his cowboy roots, the only tales he told me were about organizing a rodeo on Espiritu Santo Island to boost morale, and the pair of spurs his buddy made him out of a piece of downed airplane, which are still at his house. He'd tell you tall tales for hours, but never bragged on himself, so I never got the story on the box of medals he'd been given during his service. A different generation. I never understood how he got around in such tight quarters aboard ship, at six foot two plus. Frank