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| Subject: | Re: Any armour related presents?! |  |
| Date: | Dec 30, 2002 |
| From: | Fred A. Robinson | |
Not armor, but family history.
My aunt presented me with the bullet my grandfather was wounded by in WW1. He had always intended to make a watch fob with it for his gold watch. Since I have the watch, she brought me the bullet.
He was wounded and gassed in the last major push of WW1. He had been in France for 11 days when he was wounded. He was diving for cover and the bullet entered just above the right hip, exited in the upper right chest and then went into his triceps wher it logded. When he hit the ground his gas mask came loose and he got several breaths of mustard gas before a buddy got the mask back on him.
He survived until 1954 and the gas damage to his lungs finally caught up with him.
Pa-paw was a bood ole boy from the hollers
of Kentucky and made the best shine in his area.
It was a good Christmas because I sat at my desk and brought out all the old pics and memories of my time with him.
Maudlin Fred |
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 | Any armour related presents?! - tim white - Dec 25, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Any armour related presents?! - MSW - Dec 25, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Any armour related presents?! - Andy Herbert - Dec 25, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: Any armour related presents?! - Rick Young & Carol MacLennan-Young - Dec 25, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Famous last words - Ken Hartlen - Dec 25, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Famous last words - Andy Herbert - Dec 25, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Famous last words - Ken Hartlen - Dec 26, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Famous last words - MSW - Dec 26, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Famous last words - Rick Young & Carol MacLennan-Young - Dec 25, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Famous last words - Ken Hartlen - Dec 26, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Famous last words - Kurt Laughlin - Dec 26, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Famous last words - Mike Canaday - Dec 26, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Famous last words - Andrew Herbert - Jan 6, 2003 |
| . . . Re: Any armour related presents?! - Eric McClure - Dec 26, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: Any armour related presents?! - Darryl & Michèle Tuominen - Dec 25, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Sounds like snow heaven - tim white - Dec 26, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Any armour related presents?! - Brandon Sutherland - Dec 26, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Any armour related presents?! - Fred A. Robinson - Dec 30, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Family history - tim white - Dec 30, 2002 |
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