msmofet
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Thank you to all the Veteran's and their families who have sacrificed to keep this country safe.
My dad was in France, too. Actually, he was all over Europe and in Africa once. He fought in five major campaigns, so only had to serve three years instead of four.
He told me this story a few months ago, about how he and a buddy were playing poker in France and how he won big. The French guys took both of them over to the bar to buy them each a drink. Next thing he knows, he wakes up in the gutter. He said they put his friend on a bench, but layed him right in the street, lol. He said it cost him a promotion because he missed curfew.
Bolas De Fraile said:We visit my Mum in the care home every day. On Friday one of her younger male friends who is wheel chair bound ask me the day before if we would take him to the local war memorial service and push his chair in the parade.He was dressed in a suit with his medals on show. He wore his Para beret.We were honored that he asked us.