[Polaris]

my grandfather served during ww2 and in korea . he was in normandy and in africa during ww2 . although he never admitted it , my grandmother believed he had a couple of little lady friends in france . another thing he said was that he supposedly controlled a prisoner camp that held germans and that he has pictures of one of the german leaders , i forgot his name . ill try to get more info later, about his rank and other stuff

[Recycled Spooge]

My grandpa was in the Polish army. He was attacked by Ukraninans by surprise. Then he was captured my the Germans and worked in a coal mine. Hmmm... my whole family was somehow involved in the war. My uncle was a patrizan. He got shot across the chest. My other uncle stole a backpack from a Wermacht soldier. He got free pijamas, and some books about architecture. My greatgrandpa fought in World War 1 for the Austrians.

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[fenris]

My grandfather died in a KZ.......

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[Kaiser]

My grandmas brothers were in all the world wars. Funny thing that they were all in the navy. Only story i heard was a story about my great Uncle Alfonso. He was a AA gun feeder on the... Yorktown i think it wuz... They told him never to look up, if he looked up he would run because he would see those Kamikazi pilots comming right for him
Anyway during an attack he looked up, paniced and abandoned his job. When he look back that Kamikazi had slammed right into his post and bout 10 men were killed.. He went nutz after that.
When he came home he never spoke, one time he was sitting on the couch and my grandma heard a plane coming and covered her ears and head, he looked over at her and said " You should have been where i was" and thats the only thing he ever said..

[Polaris]

the german prisoner was Hermann W. Goering . i dont think my grandfather was really "in charge" of the prison camp , that could just be my dad exaggerating . but my grandfather was a captain during ww2 and retired as a major .

[Hells-Angel]

my grandfather during ww2 was a Major sergeant in the rangers, 1 st batallion, and even trained with the second, but was transferred to the army because his money was the only support for his mother. He landed on d-day +3 and fought throughout the early normandy campaign, he even saved one guy who had hus legs blown off after my grandfather caught him sleeping on his post and sent him to a hot spot. My grandfather also blew up a tiger tank on his own with a bazooka, in the tracks after it killed much of his platoon. He was wounded pretty bad by some shrapnel and sent back to england and awarded a medal of bravery. He is still alive today and visited normandy and other areas where he fought about 2 years ago.

[Phosphoric]

My grand father die before I was born. My dad told me that he was a sniper, I guess that explains why me and my dad both have really steady hands (he's a computer graphic artist who has the steadiest hand I've ever seen in free-hand drawing and I... well I own in FPS!)

[Phosphoric]

I think Candystraw and badscript said somethng about 30th post you become IBM-compatiable, seeing that Hell-Angel is at 28 and I as of this moment is at 29, I'll give it a shot and see if I became the second IBM-compatiable guy after Candy.

I hate Mac!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Phosphoric]

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[Hells-Angel]

IBM-PC COMPATIBLE YAYYYYY lol, one more after this

[Hells-Angel]

how was everyones memorial day? mine was great, just wondering

[Hells-Angel]

ya me and candy and phos, I am so proud =)

[aletoledo]

wow, kaiser thats some story, can you imagine missing death by that much!

[Shroom]

Well don't be to mad at my great grandfather. Well he was recuited for the Germans during World War 2. Mainly he was forced to or go into a concnetration camp. So he joined and left my great grandma. He was posted on the Eastern front in Stalingrad and sent lots of letters to my great grandma telling her how the Russians where tempting them in Winter on how warm it was in there houses/bunkers and how good there food was. Well one day my great grandpa was consideried MIA. I think he wasnt killed just got captured or went off hiding someplace.

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Shroom
"For the burned cities and villages; for the deaths of our children and our mothers; for the torture and humiliation of our people; I swear revenge upon the enemy… I swear that I would rather die in battle with the enemy then surrender myself my people and my country to the Fascist invaders. Blood for blood! Death for death!" - Russian War Oath

[BlueDevil]

My Grandpa was a medic during the 2nd world war and faught in some south pacific islands sometime around 1942,(watch the movie The Thin Red Line and you will know what i'm talking about). When the U.S. casualties were low, he was ordered to scope out fox holes and burn any japanese out with flame throwers and grenades.