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TED WALTHER
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 Posted on: May 25, 2010 - 7:02am
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WELL SAID FRANK!!!!
DICK;
YOU DID IT AGAIN!!!! YOU MENTIONED THAT BOAT AGAIN, NOW WATCH WITHIN A WEEK "THE QUESTION" WILL BE POSTED AGAIN FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME!!!!
TAKE CARE,
TED
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Dick
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Posted on: May 25, 2010 - 8:47am
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Ted . . .
You have no ideal how hard it was to press those keys on my keyboard. I would tape them off, but darn, I need to use some of them occasionally.
But on a brighter side the board has been a little slow lately and we're never hurt from lively discussion. However we still average about 300 unique visitors each day, with or without controversy. No one should shy away, but be prepared you maybe challenged and rightly should be. After all, we all have a voice on this board, don't be discouraged by challenges . . . they're a fact of life.
Dick . . .
PS: Ted, as you will note, Frank also evoked those same keys on his keyboard ☺
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Frank J Andruss Sr
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Posted on: May 25, 2010 - 10:08am
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I had to Dick, the cobwebs on some of them were getting to be too much...........
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Will Day
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Posted on: May 25, 2010 - 10:33am
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Ya know, one good thing about the whole JFK 109 thing may be that it exposes outsiders who might never even have known what a PT was to sources like this Message Board and PT Boats, Inc. It is probably worth all the repetition ad- nauseum to get an occasional convert to the lore of the boats....
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Jerry Gilmartin |
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Posted on: May 25, 2010 - 10:50am
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Hi Will,
PT109? I have never heard of it. What does PT stand for again? Oh and who is JFK? Was he famous or something? Just curious. Oh excuse me I am feeling a little nauseated. Har har. Jerry PT658 Portland OR
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Will Day
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Posted on: May 25, 2010 - 3:02pm
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Everyone's a comedian. I always thought the only funny guy on here was Andruss...
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Nathaniel Smith
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Posted on: May 25, 2010 - 3:06pm
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My dad is 90 years old. He never talked about his year in the Solomon's much to us kids. Combat isn't fun. Being bombed and shot at nightly isn't fun. War is not something a combat vet wants to glorify to his kids.
I have spent the last two years learning everything I can about his experience in Ron 9. I have learned how to research at the National Archives. I have sent 100 pages of emails to the only other surviving member of his crew who has lovingly answered all my questions ... thank-you Pat.
Every time I visit may dad we talk. I can talk with him with a lot of knowledge about what he experienced in 1943. Even more important ... he can talk with me. He has held in his stories, his fears, his memories, his regrets for 60 years. We both are enjoying this conversation immensely.
Thanks to this blog, the modelers, the vets, the 2nd Generation people I have opened up a line of conversation with my dad that will be paramount in my memory of him. We just never talked sports. While my dad loves to talk Civil War generals ... it has never been my interest. My brother loves to talk Civil War with him.
I recently brought my first cousin to visit my dad. He wrote me after the visit that he just loved to listen in as my dad and I talked details about Rendova, and Tulagli, Treasury and Lever Harbor. He told a chilling story about being straffed by our own bombers. My cousin never had this kind of dialog with his dad (my dad's brother) and he was very impressed.
I want to thank the vets on this blog who share their stories, the researchers who discuss the fine details of every question, the modelers who see the most minute details and the 2nd Generationers who share my interest. You have given me a chance to know my dad that I will never forget. You have given my dad a chance to know his son that he will never forget.
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Frank J Andruss Sr
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Posted on: May 25, 2010 - 3:35pm
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Thanks Will..... I will be here all week. ...............
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