Bill,
A real treasure for sure! Hard for us imagine what things were like back, then... but... You have a personal connection with those times, and these types of memorabilia can trigger all sorts of thoughts... I've also found they stimulate me to do a bit of research and learn even more... Enjoy!!!
DDT
That's exactly what I'm doing on this rain, sleet, snow day. I've been learning much from internet searches.
He was my mom's father and lived his whole life in Missouri. I only met him 1 time, as I've never got
to his home state and he only traveled out here once. Sadly, he died when I was pre-teen.
It's amazing how far we've come in 100 years.
Cool memento Hook. Glad your Grandfather make it out. My Grandfather Vinton was enroute by train to board a ship to go on over when it ended - thank God.
Just my opinion but we never should have got involved in the first Banker War, but Woody was probably the original US globalist and wanted us in bad. Almost 120,000 needless deaths in less than a year. However our involvement did bring it to a quick close, and brought forth great military leaders that would serve us well in the next banker war like Ike, Patton, MacArthur and many other.
Thanks Alpha Dog, I agree the Doc's are cool.
I don't know anything about his service, not having the chance to learn from him and my mom never talked about it, so I'm thinking she knew little also.
What I've learned is his company had a ruff time of it, being under transported and moving all their gear themselves, by cart, w/o draft animals. They also fought under nerve gas and influenza & pneumonia took its toll.
