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To: KLP who wrote (6401)	12/8/2005 8:45:45 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542233

My Dad was a salesman who traveled about 1 month out of 3, and in the summer I would travel with him for a few weeks at a time throughout west Texas and New Mexico. This was about 20 years after the end of the war, so there were a lot of veterans that we would run across. In those little towns the people were eager to talk to travelers. "What did you do in the War?" was the big conversation ice breaker. I heard many amazing first hand accounts of the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge and Pacific Island hopping. There were also tales told humerously about pouring out the alcohol that preserved organs after an autopsy, replacing it with formaldahyde, and selling the alcohol with fruit juice in the mess halls. I think many of these tales would never be told except to another soldier, except that they didn't seem to notice a 10 year old sippin' a soda and pretending to not be paying attention. TP