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re: Found the saddest thing ever at a garage sale last weekend
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:07 pm to theantiquetiger
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:07 pm to theantiquetiger
I buy a lot of used books, particularly children's books for my son. Many were given to the original owners as gifts and have the sweetest notes inside the front cover. Maybe I'm too sentimental, but I would not part with these, either.
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Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:07 pm to northshorebamaman
quote:still, extras or not He might have more than 1 kid /grandkid
What do you think I had the extras for? To put on a rack with any appropriate devices. Mine are on a rack right now. I also have another rack that's on my a's hanging in the closet.
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:07 pm to northshorebamaman
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Look, she may be a terrible person, but I'm just not going to assume so when there are other reasonable explanations.
I could tell by the way she acted that she just really didn’t know what they were. To her, they were “just something her dad in the Army”. I had to explain the few ribbons I recognized.
I’m just hoping she was keeping the medals, just selling the ribbons. There were no actual medals for sell.
This post was edited on 11/10/20 at 2:14 pm
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:09 pm to ChenierauTigre
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Who and why would someone steal someone else's war/military medals?
to sell them for 50 cents at a garage sale
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:12 pm to Ed Osteen
Got my Dads need to present them. Here’s some
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:12 pm to Tigeralum2008
My grandfather had 2 Purple Hearts.
A nephew of his sold him on the idea of giving his son one as his son was depressed from his mother dying. Well, he did and years later at their house, I was visiting with the kid and found the medal in a junk drawer. LIVID
His son got the remaining one when he passed as he should but that still pisses me off. At least I got his 33rd degree mason ring he always wore. It’s clipped where they took it off of his hand. I will never repair it nor will I wear it (I’m not a Mason). But, it’s kept safe and I cherish it.
A nephew of his sold him on the idea of giving his son one as his son was depressed from his mother dying. Well, he did and years later at their house, I was visiting with the kid and found the medal in a junk drawer. LIVID
His son got the remaining one when he passed as he should but that still pisses me off. At least I got his 33rd degree mason ring he always wore. It’s clipped where they took it off of his hand. I will never repair it nor will I wear it (I’m not a Mason). But, it’s kept safe and I cherish it.
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:13 pm to KAHog
Wow.
My grandad had two of the ones in the middle (blue and yellow). He was WWII Air Corps. Flew in the Battle of the Bulge
My grandad had two of the ones in the middle (blue and yellow). He was WWII Air Corps. Flew in the Battle of the Bulge
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:14 pm to OWLFAN86
Sure but now we're just adding assumptions to reach a predetermined conclusion.
My only point is that the fact that the ribbons were for sale is not in itself enough to make assumptions about this random woman that we know nothing else about. There are reasons for her to sell these that don't automatically make her a shitty daughter and an unpatriotic bitch.
My only point is that the fact that the ribbons were for sale is not in itself enough to make assumptions about this random woman that we know nothing else about. There are reasons for her to sell these that don't automatically make her a shitty daughter and an unpatriotic bitch.
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:15 pm to tigafan4life
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OMG those are treasures. Wow.
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:16 pm to theantiquetiger
I would have taken them built a nice shadow display box for them and mailed them back to her with a nice note
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:18 pm to KAHog
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Got my Dads need to present them. Here’s some
Tomorrow is Veterans Day. Take them tomorrow and get mounted/framed.
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:19 pm to KAHog
That looks like the stack of an officer
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:19 pm to Cracker
quote:I didn't even think of that. Possible her dad already had his original ribbons (or better yet, the actual medals) in a display box and op bought one of his "every day" racks. Lots of guys do that.
I would have taken them built a nice shadow display box for them and mailed them back to her with a nice note
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:19 pm to CharlesLSU
Wow.
My grandad had two of the ones in the middle (blue and yellow). He was WWII Air Corps. Flew in the Battle of the Bulge
Dad was in Army for 20 yrs and helped set up the war games after(including Polk). Come to find out he was kind of a big deal. Flew in a bird dog(2 tours Vietnam) and that's the "out of country patch"
My grandad had two of the ones in the middle (blue and yellow). He was WWII Air Corps. Flew in the Battle of the Bulge
Dad was in Army for 20 yrs and helped set up the war games after(including Polk). Come to find out he was kind of a big deal. Flew in a bird dog(2 tours Vietnam) and that's the "out of country patch"
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:20 pm to Cracker
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I would have taken them built a nice shadow display box for them and mailed them back to her with a nice note
That actual thought crossed my mind when I was there, and probably what I would have done if she sold them to me.
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:22 pm to CharlesLSU
All too common these days.
I have some letters from a seabee to his wife... And her to him... They wrote each other daily... Anyway after their passing the family sold them..
At a WWII Trade show... for $15 I bought an entire pack.. It was from a school teacher... it had ever letter, contact etc of herteaching career during WWII. Apparently she was born in Oklahoma, married A guy from Louisiana...She was letters of offers from all over. Plus her wedding photos...
I had to do it... I plan on putting in a three ring binder.
I have some letters from a seabee to his wife... And her to him... They wrote each other daily... Anyway after their passing the family sold them..
At a WWII Trade show... for $15 I bought an entire pack.. It was from a school teacher... it had ever letter, contact etc of herteaching career during WWII. Apparently she was born in Oklahoma, married A guy from Louisiana...She was letters of offers from all over. Plus her wedding photos...
I had to do it... I plan on putting in a three ring binder.
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:22 pm to theantiquetiger
omorrow is Veterans Day. Take them tomorrow and get mounted/framed.
Great idea. Still missing some. Headed back down for Thanksgiving so I'll get the rest.
Great idea. Still missing some. Headed back down for Thanksgiving so I'll get the rest.
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:23 pm to Cracker
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I would have taken them built a nice shadow display box for them and mailed them back to her with a nice note
Out of all the things that get up voted and downvoted.. Why would people down vote someone suggesting an act of kindness?
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:23 pm to theantiquetiger
She's probably a democrat.
Posted on 11/10/20 at 2:26 pm to LewDawg
That looks like the stack of an officer
He retired as a major. Loved the troops and whenever soldiers around Polk would see him, even in Lake Charles, they would recognize him and salute. Made it worth him being gone so often as a child.
He retired as a major. Loved the troops and whenever soldiers around Polk would see him, even in Lake Charles, they would recognize him and salute. Made it worth him being gone so often as a child.
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