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Post by Fran Gyomory on Nov 6, 2007 11:33:21 GMT -5
I would love to see you add the Merchant Marines to the Veterans page since they were transferred to the Dept of War for WWII. My uncle Frankie was in the Merchant Marines and was killed during WWII delivering supplies to the military overseas.
God bless them all.
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Post by Barry on Nov 6, 2007 16:32:13 GMT -5
I've been telling my wife for years. If I had do it over I'd join the Merchant Marines
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Post by Fran Gyomory on Nov 6, 2007 16:53:54 GMT -5
My uncle Frankie was 4F because of a punctured eardrum. He was a very healthy and strong man and very proud. People made comments to him about why he wasn't in the war and he tried every way to get in some branch of the service. He finally joined the Merchant Marines and unfortuntely was on a ship which was hit by a torpedo in Mermansk and we were told by doctors who knew his medical history that he would have died instantly in the freezing water. My grandmother never really believed he was dead and always kept some hope that he had gotten saved somehow. When they can't send the body home, it does make it hard on the family. Of course, this all happened before I was born and my grandmother asked my parents to name me to honor uncle Frankie. Mom always told me the stories about my uncle and what a great guy he was. He died so very young.
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