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View Poll Results: Would you go to war?
Just point me in the right direction... (yes) 12 36.36%
*Sings* "C'mon People now, Smile on your brother..." (No) 1 3.03%
If my Country was directly threatened, but not because George W says i should... 14 42.42%
If i objected to the treatment of a certain people (a la' Poland) 1 3.03%
Other (Specify in Post) 5 15.15%
Voters: 33. You may not vote on this poll

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Default 01-15-2003, 04:17 PM

had a uncle killed in korea by a sniper the day before he was set to ship out ... granddad flew in the air-force in WW2 mostly he was station in burma .
  
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Default 01-15-2003, 09:21 PM

My family is mostly dedicated to service in the Royal Navy.

On my fathers side.
My Great Great Grandfather was swept off the rigging of a ship.
My Great Grandfather was blown up on HMS India in WW1.
My Grandfather served aboard HMS Vesper in World War 2, he joined the navy aged 8 after his father died. He had a very eventful war, he was involved in the D-Day landings, he was sunk 3 times and he spent 21 days in a rowing boat adrift at sea, surviving off flying fish.
He was also captured by the Spanish but he managed to escape, evade capture again by hiding out in the Spanish hills and eventually make his way right across Spain to Gibraltar. He used to tell my dad stories of when he was on the Arctic & Atlantic convoys and the German planes would come along and strafe the whole ship. He would hide behind a round metal thing on the ship (I forget the name) and as the plane turned he would creep around it so as to remain hidden from site. In the Arctic convoys it was so cold that the ice on his ship would build up in so many layers that it was in danger of overturning.
Like some people have already said, as a vet he didn't talk much about the war, I know he saw some terrible things, people on fire from the oil tankers that got torpedoed, (the Arctic convoys weren’t allowed to stop and pick up survivors) etc.

I can't help but feel proud of him as I write this though...

I wish I could have met him.
  
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Default 01-15-2003, 11:51 PM

My father's father was a pilot for the Tuskegee Airmen
My mother's father was a mechanic for the Tuskegee Airmen
My father is an Air Force Lt. Colonel retired
My uncle is a Major in the US Army
My brother graduated from the Air Force Academy last year and completed flight school today and is awaiting assignment

as you can see my family is mostly in the Air Force
  
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Default 01-16-2003, 09:29 AM

My Granfather was in the 13th Airborne in France. Luckily the war ended before they were activated. But he did go through the Korean war. He was a heavy machinegunner(Browning .50cal) He never really talked about it, in fact i never knew he was in it at all until a few years ago. He did say that one time he fired a .30call from his hip, which i thought was cool.
  
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Default 01-16-2003, 10:01 AM

I would only join if they get rid of the anthrax, smallpox, blah, blah, blah vaccinnes. I have no intention of dying from a fucking needle, it's a waste of my talents.
  
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Default 01-18-2003, 01:35 PM

my Grandpa was in the polish army and faught the nazis
  
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