Patriots jump to the lead for Dalton

[Nicomo Cosca]

(03-22-2020, 08:28 PM)McC Wrote: You got that right.

Weird little grandpa tidbit.

My grandpa on my father's side was in a tank crew on Anzio in WWII(yeah, yeah, I'm old as ****).  And this is the only thing he ever told me about being in the war.

They had a lull in the action.  Grandpa had to take a leak.  He climbs out of the tank, takes a little walk.  He;s ten feet from the tank, starts to whip it out and for reasons he couldn't even explain, decides to walk a little farther away and ends up on the other side of a huge tree. 

As he's peeing, the tank get hit and blown to bits.  The tree he's standing behind gets blasted with shrapnel.  He gets a piece in one of his triceps which was not all the way behind the tree. 

Everybody in the tank dead.  That's how close I came to never existing.  That's how close my family name came to ending.

Crazy stuff, man. Better to be lucky than good as they say. My grandfather was shot in the shoulder during the Battle of the Bulge. The German bullet hits an inch or two over and my dad and me and my brothers aren’t here today.