|
11-12-2021, 12:10 AM | #3 | ||||||
|
Mine passed a number of years ago. Miss him daily even at 75. He taught me a great deal about bird dogs and hunting. He was a WWII Army vet. Dont really know what he did because he never talked about it with me. He would talk with the other guys at the Legion and they always were quiet bout what they said. Ran his bird dogs till the day he passed. He was happy. Enough said
__________________
Bruce A. Hering Program Coordinator/Lead Instructor (retired) Shotgun Team Coach, NSCA Level III Instructor Southeastern Illinois College AMM 761 |
||||||
The Following 10 Users Say Thank You to Bruce Hering For Your Post: |
11-12-2021, 07:07 AM | #4 | ||||||
|
My Dad, also an Army WWll vet, passed 4 years ago at 97. He was responsible for my passion for bird hunting, dogs and Parkers. He also talked very little about the war other than the fact that he watched the USS Indianapolis leave Tinian on it's fateful return trip. His Trojan 12 would sit in a rack in his bedroom and at the tender age of ten or twelve I would lust over it. I now have it. The most memorable birthday present he ever gave me was a day at the Baltimore Antique Arms show for my birthday. We'll never again see the likes of the Greatest Generation.
__________________
Wag more- Bark less. |
||||||
The Following 13 Users Say Thank You to Daryl Corona For Your Post: |
11-12-2021, 10:41 AM | #5 | ||||||
|
my dad also served in world war 2 he was in the merchant marines...never talked about the war..he brought home a jap rifle and a grass hoola skirt for my mom...charlie
|
||||||
The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to charlie cleveland For Your Post: |
11-16-2021, 03:52 PM | #6 | ||||||
|
My mom and Dad....
First Lieutenant...Pilot 33 Bombing missions over Germany in a B-24 Can you just imagine?
__________________
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be payed heavily for their acquiring...They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.......E. Hemmingway |
||||||
The Following 10 Users Say Thank You to Marty Kohler For Your Post: |
11-16-2021, 05:07 PM | #7 | ||||||
|
I can’t imagine…and I’m grateful to your father that I can’t.
__________________
“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.” ― Jim Harrison "'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy) |
||||||
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Garry L Gordon For Your Post: |
11-16-2021, 08:00 PM | #8 | ||||||
|
|
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to Jim Kremmel For Your Post: |
11-16-2021, 10:11 PM | #9 | |||||||
|
Quote:
It was a special place, with a terrific sense of history everywhere you turned. It was my very first GM plant out of college, and it was so special when I was named Plant Manager sixteen years after I left the plant for other GM assignments. One of the great heartbreaks of my GM career was in June of 2009 when I had to tell our 2600 employees that GM had decided that we needed to ramp down operations at Willow Run and close the plant by December of 2010. I was as crushed as our workforce, because that place had such a profound effect on my development from my first days out of college. But we proudly ramped things down, and we were successful in ensuring that every one of those employees who wanted to remain in GM careers were able to do so. Sorry for the ramble. I loved the place and the people. Maybe someday I'll put that all into another book..... Dave
__________________
“I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn’t have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.” -Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson, America's 7th President |
|||||||
The Following 9 Users Say Thank You to Dave Tatman For Your Post: |
11-17-2021, 12:00 PM | #10 | ||||||
|
My former next-door neighbor, whose career ended up as the Manufacturing manager at GM's Turnstead Division, was the change control officer at Willow run during the war. He told me "I don't think we ever built two alike"
__________________
"Striving to become the man my dog thinks I am" |
||||||
The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to John Dallas For Your Post: |
|
|