"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Thanks for understanding.. I don't get much around here. But at my age I
don't
give a damn. I'll say what I like whenever I like.When I was a kid I
volunteered for the Army Air Corps. Me and a million other guys. I was
called
up the day I was 18 and rushed ino training as the war raged. My greatest
fear
was that the war would end before I got there and I would miss the entire
thing. I had nothing to worry about. It seemed as though 15 minutes after
I was
called up I was 10,000 feet over Germany, which is exaclty where I wanted
to
be. I didn't join the guard. I didn't join the reserves.

Idiot. There was NO Guard for you to join--it had already been mobilized (in
toto) before you finished high school, and depending upon the date in
question, Guardsmen were already fighting and dying. The big mobilization in
1940 ring a bell?


I wanted to go to war
so I joined the Army Air Corp. Back then the reserve and the guard were
pathetic jokes and laughing stocks for all of us.

Really? Was the 116th Infantry a "pathetic joke" at Normandy? How about the
elements of the 32nd ID in the southwest pacific campaigns? "Bloody Buna"
ring a bell?

As I have said before, if you
want to go to war, then go to war and don't hand us this reserve or
National
Guard stuff. Tell a member of the 101st fighting for his life at Bastogne
what
a great job the reserve is doing to defend our country sitting in the
USA
nice and safe while he may not live to see the end of this day.

It was bad enouigh that you were completely clueless in regard to the
activities of the modern reserve components, but that you were so badly
wrong as to the Guard/Reserve during your own war is unbelievable.

Brooks


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