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Osem · 06-06-2014, 18:07

that man.

Stuff the suits and honour their comrades who fell...

to them all!

My father was on a minesweeper during the war but like many veterans doesn't want to talk about his experiences. The one story I recall him telling me was how they came across the scene of a torpedoed US ship and stopped to pick up bodies despite the danger to their own vessel. They felt it was their duty to rescue as many of the Americans as they could even though they were all dead. He described them as stiff like statues and somehow that made the task of getting the bodies on board easier to bear.

06-06-2014, 18:07	#4
Osem Inactive Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Right here! Posts: 22,315	Re: Pensioner goes AWOL, turns up in Normandy that man. Stuff the suits and honour their comrades who fell... to them all! My father was on a minesweeper during the war but like many veterans doesn't want to talk about his experiences. The one story I recall him telling me was how they came across the scene of a torpedoed US ship and stopped to pick up bodies despite the danger to their own vessel. They felt it was their duty to rescue as many of the Americans as they could even though they were all dead. He described them as stiff like statues and somehow that made the task of getting the bodies on board easier to bear.