02-13-2021, 07:01 PM
(02-09-2021, 11:15 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I'm looking forward to cleaning it up and displaying it with my grandfather's memorabilia. I found his funeral flag, his old ribbons and rank, and even a ring he had from his unit. He was also a survivor of the HMT Rohna incident, so there is a lot of interesting history, there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMT_Rohna
My dad often talked about life aboard troop transport ships from his time in the Marines back in the 50s, many of them leftover from service in WWII.. His apparently favorite story was never picking a bottom bunk especially anywhere near a port of call when guys would get good and drunk on shore, climb in their bunks then puke on anyone below them, 7 bunks deep at the time.. He often warned me about getting drunk then getting on a troop transport ship..
On a serious note.. It makes me wonder just how many of that particular crew had been drunk when it went down since it was docked close to Algeria at the time..
In the immortal words of my old man, "Wait'll you get to be my age!"
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
