Happy 79th Birthday U. S. Airborne August 16, 1940 – August 16, 2019
I saw this posted yesterday first on https://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/2019/08/15/79th-u-s-airborne-birthday/ and later on https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2015/08/09/army-celebrates-75-years-of-the-american-paratrooper/.
Thank you for helping me to have the troopers honored!!
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You are welcome. I have great respect for those who jump out of planes or dive in submarines or serve in any other capacity.
My father was in the Air Force as a cook, but got out before I was born. It gave him a passion for traveling as I grew up.
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It must not have been an easy job to feed the men of his unit!! Many a good chef came out of the service. Despite all the jokes about military food, my father never complained about it – he actually liked it quite a bit!
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No doubt. He was a good cook, but he never quiet got the knack that he was cooking for 6, and not 100 – 200. We had lots of leftovers when he did cook.
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If you froze all the extra – it was your father who invented the frozen TV dinner, eh?!! 🙂
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Pretty much. At times, we had a deep freezer which meant we might go a week with leftovers every night.
He died unexpectedly at 47 back in 1977 and we don’t have any of the recipes he made, but I wish he had written them down.
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So young, I’m so sorry for your loss. I lost mine in 1988 at the age of 74. (He was about 10 years older than the other troopers.) I still him, he was my rock.
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Salute!
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