Post #497030 by Mr. Pupu Pants on Thu, Dec 3, 2009 10:26 AM

I'm right with you on this. I sure do relate to wanting to give those pictures, etc. a place of honor and to keep those memories alive. I've always had a real fascination and awe with that era and the amazing people who gave so much to defend and protect us (as so many do today as well). The 'back-story' of my basement bar is of a fictional 1940's bar and I have a spot that will be dedicated to that time and those people (been collecting stuff for years). My Great Uncle served in the Pacific and fought through the islands (until being seriously injured on Saipan). He was a wonderful and very humble man.

Twice in the last few years at my workplace (a software company in Redmond), a veterans group has invited Buck Compton to speak on Memorial Day. He was one of the men depicted in Band of Brothers and lives locally. He is one of the most humble men I have ever met and his whole life story is amazing (played college baseball before the war as a team mate and friend of Jackie Robinson, After the war-became a cop/detective, later became a prosecutor and subsequently prosecuted Sirhan-Sirhan for the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and later became a Circuit Court of Appeals Judge. I proudly and humbly hang his autographed picture in my house.

Really makes me personally happy to know there are others out there who feel the same way.

[ Edited by: Mr. Pupu Pants 2009-12-03 10:28 ]