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"This medal is not mine, I just hold it in trust for those kids that never grew up to be grandfathers"

"I wear it to honor those men whose heroic acts were never recognized because there were no witnesses left"

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This medal is not mine, I just hold it in trust for those kids that never grew up to be grandfathers"

"I wear it to honor those men whose heroic acts were never recognized because there were no witnesses left"

Cool,
Words from the heart.......You understand.

My uncle Frank was in the 101st Airborne Division, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Company E, aka Easy Company. He is one of the "Band of Brothers." He was in Bastogne when the shit was flying. He jumped into Normandie a few days before the assault. While he did not earn a Medal of Honor he served admirably, as the collection of medals below will show. He was chased by Steven Spinberg for ten years to tell his story for the movie, but Frank declined. Said he didn't want to relive what he saw and what he did in those days. Things he did are incorporated into the movie, but are shown as being done by composite characterizations. He is in his mid-80s now. I have not seen him since June of 1975. I was a punk kid of 17 back then and had no idea what he had done for our nation when he was just a year or so older than me. I was more interested in stupid kid stuff while he, at my age, faced the Germans with little more than a rifle and a few hand grenades. What men we had back then. We still have them, but they seem few in number these days...

Medal of Honor winner or not, I salute all who have worn the uniform of our great country and to those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for my Freedom, I am forever indebted. May God make a special place in Heaven for all of you...






May God Bless You, Uncle Frank...

Homebrewer,
Thanks for sharing Uncle Franks story. I hope you get to see him before he joins his fallen brothers. In almost all firefights there is either a small group or an individual that tips the balance and saves lives.

I hope you can arrange to have this video clip made available to him.
To Uncle Frank and all like him.

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I hope you can arrange to have this video clip made available to him.

I don't know if Frank has a computer or if he does, if he uses it. Most likely his wife is the computer-savvy one. I would have liked to have shown Uncle Frank's face, but I don't have permission to do that, so just the story and his medals. I got four large pictures from my dad the other day; he had no problem with me showing Uncle Frank's face, but I thought better of it. I have another uncle who was in the Corps and got his uniform soaked in the Pacific. My dad was too young to serve in WW2; he was just 13 when Frank joined-up. My dad, did, however, serve in Alaska in the early 1950s. Met my mom there in 1953 and the rest is going on nearly 55 years of history...

Great clips. May God bless those men, and the United States of America.

Greatness walks amongst us.