R43 QUITE TRIVAL WHEN HEAVYWEIGHT BOXER BOB SATTERFIELD SERVED IN THE ARMY FROM 1942 TO 1945 WHERE HE BEGAN BOXING AFTER RETURNING FROM WAR 1945 AMAZING R 43 DID YOU MEAN MY MOM BIRTH WARM MEMORIES OF UNCLE BOBBY LIFE GOES ON GOD BLESS AMERICA
The Aces are coming the female ducklings said. There’s Dash!
Duckling adoration toward these valiant flyers with panache’.
One glided in on half a fighter jet that had a huge gash.
They entered the French restaurant and made a great splash!
They are heroes! The French ducklings yelled out with glee.
You can have him and Jim but save Henry Ace for me!
There was a clear favorite, as we other officers could see.
My brother Henry left with a smile that said “hee hee hee”.
Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or, “Why Not to Bomb the Brits”)
by Michael R. Burch
The English are very hospitable,
but tea-less, alas, they grow pitiable ...
or pitiless, rather,
and quite in a lather!
O bother, they're more than formidable.
Those who fought in WWII tell their tales
Of bravery and loss of friends and kin.
Though soldiers of that war were mostly males
Brave women did their part to help us win.
Father's plane shot down over Germany,
With parachute he landed in a lake.
Soon he was captured by the enemy
In concentration camp plans he would make.
Two times with friends he failed in his escape.
Third time two friends were killed, he got away.
He made his way across the rough landscape.
A farmer's daughter helped him hide away.
Through grace of God he made it through the war
To father children whom he did adore.
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