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ORIGINAL: JWE

Oh, God, If I could only go back. I never frikkin knew. The things he could have told me, the stuff he could have said. But perhaps, it’s best this way. I remember the man. And I think that’s enough

We never realise til it's too late that our grandads were once young too. My maternal grandad took part in the death march across north Germany in early '45 having spent the majority of WWII as a PoW. I only ever knew him as a gentle car mechanic.

You are most correct. My favorite uncle was a silver star recipient at Remargen where he was one of the first engineers across the bridge. Despite the fact I've interviewed hundreds of veterans for oral history projects (and always considerd myself pretty good at getting them to talk) do you think I could ever get him to talk about that experince?

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G'night gents[>:][>:][>:]

The last ancestor of mine (that I'm aware of) that actually fought in a war fought at Sharpsburg for the north...and deserted if what my gran tells me is true. Hard to blame considering he was a German immigrant who certainly would have realized what a disaster that army was at the time.

Before that, it was three Scots-Irish brothers who fought in the Revolution. One was a courier for Washington and was killed. The others were captains and survived.

May as well do some cleanup work.

My ancestor, John Lemon, settled in Kentucky on a bend in the river, which became known as Lemmon's bend.

His grandson (Jacob) moved to Missouri where he and his second wife (not my side) had 8 sons who all fought in the Late Unpleasantness...7 for the north and one for the South.

All survived except for Johnny Reb. He died at Kirkdale fighting with Porter's Legion.

Jacob's grandson went to Montana on a wagon train. I have the log of that journey. Fascinating read.

They settled in Gallatin county in the small town of Manhattan.

Wife and I visited the small church cemetary there a few years back. Four or five generations of my ancestors lie there.

That will give one a sense of roots, for sure.

And a fresh, log-free page for the brotherhood.....

Here is a link to google maps showing the area of Lemon's Bend Kentucky. If you switch to map view, you can still see the road names remain. [8D]

http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=h&ll=37.227458,-85.379391&spn=0.048318,0.075359&z=14

Cool stuff, Brother, and good work on the clean up.  [8D]

And here's the little cemetery where my folks sleep.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=45.824284,-111.307833&spn=0.010572,0.01884&t=h&z=16

Page 900 tithe...

Goodnight Harvey Pekar.

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

Don't know if you all know but Pekar and the Ramones are icons for this 70's kid. If T and company can have their moments then Gabba Gabba Hey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKkiLEb9 ... re=related