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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts
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To: Tweets Boar Hog who wrote (94458)8/24/2025 9:51:44 PM
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Thank you for that thoughtful response and taking the time to correct my misinformation, Tweets.

My wife's grandfather was in the Battle of the Bulge. He was primarily a truck driver. Like so many, he got frostbite there and had to be hospitalized. He was more suited to be a chaplain than a GI.

Later in life, he took to carrying around a photo of some people his company had helped liberate from a concentration camp. It was getting worn, and I told him I could have it scanned and cleaned up by one of my graphics people. He died before I could get it done.

I had an uncle who was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. He never spoke of the war. About all we ever heard is that sometimes he was laid up because the shrapnel that was still in him was giving him issues. He got his BA and Masters on the GI bill and was a regional pioneer in special education. There is a school named after him in his town.

My dad could never serve in any armed force. He was 4F due to heart damage from Scarlet Fever when he was young.

I only have known a handful of people who served in the Pacific in WWII, and none in the heavy island hopping combat. I did read "Battle Cry" when I was in high school, so I got a glamorized version of the battle on Tarawa via that. Since then, I've probably watched 100-hours of documentary footage on the Pacific theater, but that is only the tip of the iceberg of all that went on there.

Thank you once again for your insights, Tweets!
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