WWI Vet Passes

[Larry Harp]

Can you imagine some of the great stories this old gentleman could tell? Not many of these old guys around anymore. When I was in college I worked for a great old man named, Cookie DeLong (yes, that was his real name) who was a WWI vet. Sometimes at lunch he would tell us about it although his favorite story was about going to the 1926 World Series in St. Louis.



Harpo
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1882287,00.html

 

[Edward Lea.]

Good story.



I used to sit around and listen to the stories of my friends dad. He was one of the army guys that they marched out to the desert and then set off the Nuclear tests of the a-bomb before they droppped them on Japan. I am still struck by him being there when an atomic bomb was set off while they lay in trenchs and then would get up afterwards and march around and do things to see if it had an impact on them. The descriptons of the explosions were quite remarkable.

 

[William H. (Bill) Barham]

I would have loved to meet him.