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Title: JFK on WW2 vets.
Post by: Devil 505 on November 11, 2013, 02:45:00 PM

I found this quote in an old JFK memorial paper my grandfather had stashed away. Kennedy had written this as part of a letter to his parents shortly after the PT-109 incident.

"It was a terrible thing though, losing those two men. It brought home how real the war is. People get so used to talking about billions of dollars and millions of soldiers, that thousands of dead sounds like a drop in the bucket. But if those thousands want to live as much as the ten I saw - they should measure their words with great, great care."


 :salute For our past and present veterans.

Title: Re: JFK on WW2 vets.
Post by: mthrockmor on November 11, 2013, 03:35:51 PM

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Title: Re: JFK on WW2 vets.
Post by: bortas1 on November 11, 2013, 04:50:13 PM

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Title: Re: JFK on WW2 vets.
Post by: gyrene81 on November 11, 2013, 05:55:31 PM

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Title: Re: JFK on WW2 vets.
Post by: 68valu on November 12, 2013, 05:31:57 PM

My dad's uncle was a b-17 gunner in WW2. His plane was shot down and he and another crew member got picked up by JFK in his pt boat.


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Title: Re: JFK on WW2 vets.
Post by: Arlo on November 12, 2013, 05:47:03 PM

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