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A special ‘thank you’ to our veterans

November 8, 2018 shreveporttimes Leave a Comment

opinion Randy Rogers Op-ed contributor Published 10:00 AM EST Nov 10, 2018 This op-ed column reflects the opinions of its author, Randy Rogers. •   •   • War time is only the other side of peace time but if you’ve ever seen how wars are won  you know what it’s like to wish peace time would come  And don’t it seem like a long time  seem like a long time, seems like a long, long time — Ted Anderson (sung by Rod Stewart) We celebrate Veterans Day this week. My late father was a veteran — one of those drafted during World War II at age 28 when they were pretty much taking anybody, even married men with families. He didn’t stay in that long. He went into the service in 1944 and came out some time after the war ended in 1945. I don’t think he ever fired a Sherman tank shell in anger, but he did get to pitch some in the Philippines for his Army baseball team. When I was a kid in the ’60s we assumed that everybody who left to serve would get sent to Vietnam, but they weren’t. Some friends of mine wound up fighting the Cold War in either South Korea or West Germany. It seems luck and need had a lot to play in where you served. Jim Pumphrey, my LSU freshman roommate, was an Air Force veteran. After it looked like he was about to get drafted and sent to Vietnam, he went down to… [Read full story]



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