> > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/07/23 Mon AM 01:47:27 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: RE: Goin' to Montanaaaaaa! > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Sullivan" > Subject: Re: RE: Goin' to Montanaaaaaa! > > > > Bill, > > It isn't that kind of a book. The book recounts the history of the > > individual flag raisers before and after the picture. The funeral > > director guy joined the Navy to stay out of the ground war. His > > beginning training in Undertaking got him into the medical corps and > > then the units training for Iwo Jima. They were all just kids > > straight out of the '40's. > > Most of them didn't fare well after the flag raising. The three who > > came back for the war bonds tour survived, but only the Wisconsin > > undertaker thrived. Their lives were sadly colored by the experience. > > It's the kind of thing that haunts you with a lifetime of nightmares. > > Perhaps I'll give it a read. > I still very vividly recall my father's nightmares from his tours in Europe, > including one very frightfull night when he was pretty much screaming his > lungs out in his sleep, which ended with my mom, apparently sitting up in > bed getting punched square in the face while being screamed at to "get your > stupid head down before it gets shot off". > Her nose was taped up for weeks after that one. > I suspect my childhood has a lot to do with my attitudes towards the > glorification of anything military.
As a child, staying for the summer in my grandparents' terraced house during the late 1950s, I would regularly be woken during the night by screaming and crying. Years later, I was told that the next door neighbour had been a POW in SE Asia for most of the war. Although he would be counted lucky by many, I still wonder if he ever found peace. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
