Light Blogging
I'm not much given to whining, but the fact is there are certain things which piss me off. There has been a convergence of a number of these factors lately, and I've found myself more an more impatient and ready to leave.
I've been reading about a relative of mine who served with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the 82nd Airborne Division during the Normandy campaign in the Second World War. He was a Private First Class, and he died during the Normandy campaign. His date of death is marked as 17 July 1944. Of course, this is after the Regiment returned to England. His jump-mates (or men reporting to be such) spoke to his immediate family, and claimed he was hit on the way down in on 6 June. Either some bureaucrat recorded this date incorrectly, or perhaps he was wounded and it took more than a month for the end to come. In either case, it's unlikely he died as a result of non-combat injuries later on, as he's listed as KIA here. The name is Ralph Tooley.
More impersonal blogging later.
I've been reading about a relative of mine who served with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the 82nd Airborne Division during the Normandy campaign in the Second World War. He was a Private First Class, and he died during the Normandy campaign. His date of death is marked as 17 July 1944. Of course, this is after the Regiment returned to England. His jump-mates (or men reporting to be such) spoke to his immediate family, and claimed he was hit on the way down in on 6 June. Either some bureaucrat recorded this date incorrectly, or perhaps he was wounded and it took more than a month for the end to come. In either case, it's unlikely he died as a result of non-combat injuries later on, as he's listed as KIA here. The name is Ralph Tooley.
More impersonal blogging later.
posted by The Admiral at 11:51 PM
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