If yiu didn't fight in WW II.....

If you didn't fight in WW II do you feel as though your had missed something?
Do you feel that given your druthers you'd rather have been there than not? Any
regrets at having missed it? Anyone?


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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If you didn't fight in WW II do you feel as though your had missed
something?
Do you feel that given your druthers you'd rather have been there than
not? Any
regrets at having missed it? Anyone?

I was in the National Guard doing NORAD duty at ground zero, so I don't
believe I missed anything.

"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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If you didn't fight in WW II do you feel as though your had missed
something?

No

Do you feel that given your druthers you'd rather have been there than
not? Any
regrets at having missed it? Anyone?

Glad I wasn't there ( 8 years old when it ended)
Served for 36 years in the Army though (Infantry) which included time on the
two way rifle range.
Do you have any regrets at missing the Wars since WW2 Art ?

(ArtKramr) wrote:

If you didn't fight in WW II do you feel as though your had missed something?
Do you feel that given your druthers you'd rather have been there than not? Any
regrets at having missed it? Anyone?

I've said it before on this NG that I wouldn't mind flying a Spad with
the Flying Circus over St. Mihiel or an Me-109 or Fw-190 on the
Eastern Front or a Stuka over Poland and/or France in '38-'39 or a
Hurricane or a Spit over the English Channel during the summer of 1940
or an F-6F over the South Pacific during the Marianas Turkey Shoot or
a shark-mouthed P-40 over Paoshan or a Thud in 'Nam or an Israeli
F-15C in the Bekka Valley or....


But do I have any regrets? Nah....



Trikes Rule baby!

(ArtKramr) wrote:

If you didn't fight in WW II do you feel as though your had missed something?

What's a "had?" You mean my penis?

Do you feel that given your druthers you'd rather have been there than not?

There was a lot of lonely women left back in the USA! Nah! I'd rather be
getting the clean stuff, then the nasty old pot-belly girls you guys had to share...

Any regrets at having missed it?

Nope.

Anyone?

I probably would have liked to sit on the beach with one of those
gorgeous Italian babes!

"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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If you didn't fight in WW II do you feel as though your had missed
something?
Do you feel that given your druthers you'd rather have been there than
not? Any
regrets at having missed it? Anyone?

Glamorizing war is for recruiting posters and the Hollywood movie
industry. I was born in 1939 so that's why the war may have started. I
guess the Yank war didn't start until 1941. Too young for Korea also but I
spent nearly 28 years in the RCAF/CAF with Norad and NATO squadrons as a
tech. Do I miss going to war? Hell NO! Only the innocent get killed and
crippled where the people responsible for the wars in most cases sit back
and make money from it. WWII was a war that had to be fought and won
however! Many of my relatives and friends were in the thick of it. Sadly
there are fewer of them left as time marches on.
Ed

Subject: If yiu didn't fight in WW II.....
From: "Sunny"
Date: 2/26/04 5:40 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:


"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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If you didn't fight in WW II do you feel as though your had missed
something?

No

Do you feel that given your druthers you'd rather have been there than
not? Any
regrets at having missed it? Anyone?

Glad I wasn't there ( 8 years old when it ended)
Served for 36 years in the Army though (Infantry) which included time on the
two way rifle range.
Do you have any regrets at missing the Wars since WW2 Art ?



Nope.But in the last 60 years I constantly hear from guys who tell me how
lucky I was to be there and how they wished they had been there with us.
I was just wondering how those in this NG feel about that.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

In article ,
on 27 Feb 2004 01:25:47 GMT,
ArtKramr attempted to say .....

If you didn't fight in WW II do you feel as though your had missed something?
Do you feel that given your druthers you'd rather have been there than not? Any
regrets at having missed it? Anyone?


Given that I wasn't alive then ?

Or that I volunteered direct out of high school in the 1970's and chose
infantry and Korea ?



--
When dealing with propaganda terminology one sometimes always speaks in
variable absolutes. This is not to be mistaken for an unbiased slant.

"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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If you didn't fight in WW II do you feel as though your had missed
something?
Do you feel that given your druthers you'd rather have been there than
not? Any
regrets at having missed it? Anyone?

Not many are old enough to have had a choice.

Do you miss not having been in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, or the myriad places
where the Cold War was fought?

Pete

"Ed Majden" wrote in message
news:LIx%b.606014$JQ1.199497@pd7tw1no...

"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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If you didn't fight in WW II do you feel as though your had missed
something?
Do you feel that given your druthers you'd rather have been there than
not? Any
regrets at having missed it? Anyone?

Glamorizing war is for recruiting posters and the Hollywood movie
industry. I was born in 1939 so that's why the war may have started. I
guess the Yank war didn't start until 1941. Too young for Korea also but I
spent nearly 28 years in the RCAF/CAF with Norad and NATO squadrons as a
tech. Do I miss going to war? Hell NO! Only the innocent get killed and
crippled where the people responsible for the wars in most cases sit back
and make money from it. WWII was a war that had to be fought and won
however! Many of my relatives and friends were in the thick of it. Sadly
there are fewer of them left as time marches on.
Ed

As they say, Old men start wars and young men fight them !!

BMC