Ceremony in Willmar, Minn., to honor World War II vets
June 5, 2012 at 7:00 pm in West Central Tribune
WILLMAR World War II veterans in Kandiyohi County will be honored today in Willmar with certificates of appreciation for their service.
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Thank You to he World War II vets, as well as all vets. We owe you more than we could ever imagine.
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Oh, fine.
I write a couple of paragraphs about a WW2 vet, praising him and them, and I get this ‘awaiting moderation’ crap. Not one darn thing to be moderated, yet I’ll just bet it isn’t there tomorrow.
A/V really has gone downhill.
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Maybe this would of been a good topic not to whine on since it is about the veterans not you…
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Who’s whining oldtimer?
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You. Thank you for asking, figured you would need it explained to you. Always do…
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Well, let’s try again.
It was about a little guy who was drafted in ’44. In fact, I don’t know how he passed the height requirement, unless they may have waived that by that time?
He went through a shortened boot camp, but got a six month reprieve because his father had passed away, and he was the sole son. When he was finally activated, the group he would have been sent with to the South Pacific had been cut to peices by a japanese attack, leaving only about half of them alive. The survivors told him that they had to raise the guns on tables in order to shoot over the piled up Japanese corpses.
He was made a machine gunner on Leyte. And he carried that watercooled thing over islands he still doesn’t know the names of.
He lost some of his hearing because the tanks he walked alongside didn’t give the groundtroops any warning when they were going to shoot off the cannon.
He recieved the Bronze Star, but won’t say why, or what he did.
He dealt with malaria, and wound up in the occupation force in Hiroshima.
And when you ask him, he just says, “Well, that’s what they told us to do”.
These are the WW2 vets.
They don’t look for honor, most are embarassed by it.
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It is called humility.
Humility (adjectival form: humble) is the quality of being modest and respectful.
Most of the WWII Vets (including my father and uncles) saw many soldiers who went through much worse then they felt they did and they do/did not want to take the honor away from those soldiers.
It is some what how I feel about my service when people thank me for it, I did nothing that others did not do and many soldiers who served came home with much more on their shoulders then I did, if they came home at all. I feel that they deserve the thanks much more then I ever will.
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Please expound on that service, elton.
I’m sure that we’d all like to know!
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In case you have lost all your records, elton, there’s all kinds of sites on the web that allow you or anyone to do a search for them.
Let’s see…you certainly were too young for Korea, so you must have served in that nasty Viet Nam ‘police action’ thing, right? In which branch? I’ve got a cousin who was in the USAF who spent a year there. Maybe you could make a connection?
Just trying to help…
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Every negative word you say against one veteran is against all veterans. You denegrate one persons service, you denegrate all bac.
You are a typical two faced liberal bac and I am willing to bet you were one of those who spit on veterans when they came home from war. It was because of people like you we were not allowed to wear our uniforms while traveling. It was because of you we had to watch our back while traveling in the country we swore to defend.
You have no honor bac, none at all.
I pity you bac, I really do pity you…
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bac, did you serve in the military? I don’t know Elton’s age, but if he served in Viet Nam, and even if he didn’t serve oversea’s, even if he served in peacetime, He deserves more respect than you gave him! I don’t care how much I disagree with an individual’s viewpoint, if he served in the military, he deserves respect and he should be given it. If you can’t see fit to agree with that, you should move to another country.
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Hey goodbye freedom, how ya doing? To give you some idea of my age and my experience I had an opportunity to speak with Lt Calley while I was serving. It was a brief conversation but enough to know that he should not have been put in the position he was in and left on his own like he was, he was hung out to dry but his superiors.
This is my final comment on the topic of my service. People like bac are not honorable enough to know the what, where and why of my service. Someone like him is not capable of understanding.
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It is not about me or my service bac. And it is definitely not about a weenie like you son.
My service is just that bac, my service. I make no claims and have no complaints. I enlisted, I served and I was received an Honorable Discharge.
That is enough for me and the rest is NOYB sonny.
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My goodness, elton! Such a temper!
You were the one who brought up ‘your service’ on a thread dedicated to WW2 veterans. In response to a post I made praising a WW2 veteran.
All I did was give you an opportunity to expound on whatever ‘your service’ might have been, even though it was off-topic.
Sorry you’re so defensive about it.
I’m sure I really could care less as to your discharge status, your branch, or anything else. Just thought you might want to reveal it, since you seemed so proud of it?
Also, I never ‘spat’ on any returning vets as you supposed. After all, I did say I had a cousin over there, didn’t I? USAF, stationed in Cam Rahn Bey. (sp?)
And to ‘goodbye’, you’ve got so many ‘ifs’ in your post that I see that even you don’t believe elton’s tales. I have the utmost respect for any veteran, peacetime or wartime, but when I see something as questionable as this, it just disgusts me.
Back to the topic, “Thank You to all the surviving WW2 Veterans!” If it weren’t for you people, we wouldn’t be having these kinds of dumb arguements on this forum!
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I don’t really have much of a temper bac, if I did though you would be the first to know.
I have grown tired over the years of people like you who never served but takes credit for a cousins service, someone who has no idea what it means and then trys to state that WWII veterans are embarrassed by the attention they are getting.
Again bac it is called humility, something I’m sure you do not understand. Your level of disrespect for veterans knows no bounds but I served in for you to have the freedom to say what you would like.
So go for it bac and there is no need to thank my.
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BAC, HOW DARE YOU PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH. I am not questioning Elton’s service record. Where he served, how he served, or even if he served, is burden to bear. I wonder, have you ever observed the tears of a soldier who has returned from active duty? The comments you make are very rude. My brother served in Viet Namn and he wouldn’t talk about it to any of us, even though he probably should. Just because you don’t like Elton gives you NO right to question his service record, and even if you don’t consider it rude, or disrespectful, IT IS! Your lack of understanding of this is telling of your immaturity!!! I would be saying all of this to you even if I agreed with your political positions!
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Real heart-rending post, goodbye…however, I didn’t ‘put words in your mouth’, I gave my opinion of your post, my take on it.
And if you read all of the posts, please point out where I questioned elton’s service. You can’t.
I don’t know why I’m even wasting my time replying to your post, it seems Jesse had the right idea. Right, Lambchop?
Again, this thread is supposed to be about honoring WW2 veterans. Which I did.
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