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Title: Memorial Day 2011
Post by: rocketeer on May 30, 2011, 06:23:33 PM: Frances was honored once again to participate in two local Memorial Day ceremonies this year.

Sunday at Dinkey Memorial Church Cemetery, Carbon County, PA.

(http://www.enter.net/~rocketeer/g503/2011-1.jpg)

Monday at the Slatington, Lehigh County, PA, Memorial Day parade and ceremonies. This was interesting. I was asked if a lady dressed as a WWII Bataan nurse could ride in the jeep. I had an ammo box in the back so my wife sat on it and the lady in uniform sat in front. When she introduced herself I made the comment that I had gone to grade school and high school with a fellow with the same last name as hers, and I mentioned the name. She said that was her husbands name and it turned out to be the same person. How's that for a small world? I hadn't seen him in 52 years!

(http://www.enter.net/~rocketeer/g503/2011-2.jpg)

Larry
Title: Re: Memorial Day 2011
Post by: bayo500 on May 31, 2011, 02:07:00 AM: Lest we forget
Title: Re: Memorial Day 2011
Post by: jamesr on May 31, 2011, 10:18:47 AM: Dressed in her finest, for the memory of the brave. jim
Title: Re: Memorial Day 2011
Post by: calvinhunt on June 01, 2011, 09:51:19 AM: Rocketeer,
ï¿½The pics of your Jeep always stir my earliest recollections and my attraction to the amazing vintage Jeep. ï¿½Being born in 1944, my introduction to "Jeeps" was the WWII Army surplus Jeeps that ended up after the war in my little rural farming community. Even as a young boy I was amazed to see where those little Jeeps went and what they did. ï¿½Then with the WWII movies that followed for a decade or two after the war staring Audie Murphy, John Wayne, James Stuart, etc., the Army Jeep also became one of my heroes. ï¿½Thanks for the great photos.