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Here's a good site with 100's of rare pictures http://www.photosammler.de/main.htm (or http://www.photosammler.de/haupt.htm if you speak German).

And a quick message to my PBEM opponents: 'Tis the season I guess...another death in the family so I'll be out of town until Saturday

That is an awesome site, thank you tracer.

My condolences on your loss .

Goblin

Thanks, nice site!

I think somekind of stickied and admined links thread somewhere in the Matrix Forums would be great.

tracer, sorry to hear of your loss. It makes the festive season a little less so.

Jim

Thanks for the kind words, one and all...my uncle (and godfather) was one of that fast disappearing 'greatest generation'. After the ceremony I spoke at length with some of my father's cousins: three brothers who I just learned had served, were decorated, and made it back. When I asked them about the war they laughed off most of their exploits, saying they were just 'crazy kids' at the time, but between the stories I noticed the pauses where they would quietly stare at nothing in particular for a couple minutes. Could have just been old-age, but the thought I had at the time was that they were probably looking at memories of events that would have left me curled up in a ball and p*ssing myself. As I looked at them I didn't see old men, I saw three people who you'd want with you when everything around was coming apart.

When I was saying goodbye to the middle brother (Frank, a navy landing craft driver in the Pacific) I was determined to let him know I understood a little of what they went through; I thanked him for the stories and told him they were giants in my eyes.

Talk to 'em now guys, they're going fast

Amen!

Tell it again, brother.

I've lost all my uncles that served during the war. Truly, you don't know what you've lost until its gone....