The Lost Milblogs of WWII
Here’s a heartwarming story about WWII’s own version of Milblogging: Trevor McIntyre is a B-29 enthusiast in Morganton, GA who bid on a group of letters sent home by a WWII airman. After receiving the package and reading through the correspondence, he contacted the plane’s company leader and learned that the guy who wrote the letters, filled with details and thoughts about his service, was still alive.
McIntyre tracked down 90-year-old Sgt. Dave LeMal and hand-delivered the letters to him in Pennsylvania. LeMal had no idea his mother had kept the letters so he had no idea they’d been sold. When asked why he went to so much effort for someone he didn’t know, McIntyre replied that WWII vets “believed that a better tomorrow could be reached from a bad today. Meeting Dave and returning the letters, it’s just my small part of trying to repay that debt.” (via 11Alive Atlanta)
![Der Gro?mufti von Jerusalem [Amin al Husseini] bei den bosnischen Freiwilligen der Waffen-SS. Der Gro?mufti ist auf dem Truppenubungsplatz ein[getroffen] und schreitet die Front der angetretenen Freiwilligen mit erhobenem Arm ab.](http://images-undertheradar.military.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/nazicollaborators300.jpg)
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So much was sacrificed; family, national resources, blood, life and limb, so that you and I could have a better life today and tomorrow. I so much thank all are vets for what they’ve done.
That’s why I get upset when we pull out early and don’t accomplish the mission when so much is sacrificed for an ideal. In WWII we did accomplish the mission.
I agree we do pull out to soon and we do not do what we sould for the vets we have what we have becouse of then.
The Troops don’t pull out early any more than they decide to go in. Someone in a coat and tye calls the shots. It is the milatary hat has to carryn out the task whatever that may be. God bless those that serve and have served.