I guess I will make many here mad but here goes.
It has been said that anyone who believed that a welder or farmer etc. could produce the same lump in the throat as talking to someone that flew 30 missions over germany is disingenuous.
Well count me as disingenuous then. I have read many stories about how the construction of our equiptment saved lives. I have seen combat harden submariners from that era crying while thanking the men and women who built the submarines for taking the time to build them right.
That is just a couple of examples, IMHO no one group of Americans is braver than another. I have been shot at , fine,I am lucky thank GOD, yet my wifes father was in the merchant marines for 3 long years taking supplies to britian and other places. I would have not traded my experiance for his for all the tea in china. His ship was only shot at once.
The point is the marine hitting the beach is no better than the support marines ,who is no better than the farmer born with a disabled arm that works long into the night to feed the marine hitting the beach,whos life may have been saved by a support marine he never meant whose life was saved by a seamtress who took care in making the bullet prove vest.
I am not talking interservice riavels here , my uncles life was saved by an army cook in korea.
I may not have been able to say what I mean, but I know what I was trying to say.
