They say that these moments freeze where you were at that moment. Notice the detail in 206thmpco accounts. People remember details like they were ne...

"I think we were still on the North Appenines. I heard someone gave him some spiked tequila.--- " Too bad someone didn't think of that ...

Rocky, Where were you when you heard about Hitlers death?

Moose, My little Civil War Music Group has a gig this autumn....are you going to be anywhere near Connecticut? You can come and sing with us!!!

Today I found the "official" discharge paperwork. On it was listed his unit information. Spent a year looking for that info.... Some strange thi...

There are so many possibilities for those names when spelled phonetically. Mearl could be Merle or Merrill. Broom could be Brume or Bruin. Good luc...

Hi there, I tried playing around with the name Mearl Wallis. When I googled the name Wallace and your grampa's unit, This book came up. Probabl...

"That is her in the pic. above. Mary Mc Kenna. rocky " She's next to the really good looking guy?

He never saw the Phillipines. They did train to go to the Pacific after Europe, but fortunatly the war ended. Possibly they received special t...

Would the amphibious forces patch be given for rivers too? They werent involved in any beach landings. (the other option is that on the days h...

It's on my Netflix list. May be a while. I'm still wading through "Fall of Eagles". Patrick Stuart as Lenin- and he had hair back then.

Aye Carumba.... How much Civil War History has been lost because of really dumb people? The tide is turning. They're starting to reclaim parcel...

I have "Twilight in Gettysburg" and "Lonstreet at Gettysburg" as prints. I also took an old calender , had nice mats cut for them and framed them. T...

Could be worse, you could have been part of the Union Army and eating hard tack and boiled horse meat.....

In 1999 my friends husband bought a couple of cases of MRE's to prepare for Y2K. He was going to be prepared for when society shut down. She made hi...