War stories from YOUR ancient relatives
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aronnax
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Well he died eight months after I was born so I wouldn't know.
I am under the impression that he probably mellowed out after a while but died an admirer of Mao. I am quite sure that his support for Mao Zedong and the Communist party is probably like 30% ideological. Similar to my other Grandfather, I believe he just thought that Mao Zedong and the CCP was China's best hope to rebuild and become modern and powerful as oppose to political conviction that Communism was best.
He was probably just more coloured by Mao's good image during the war and that as a poor immigrant Chinese man who camr from an impoverish farming village, redistributing land from the rich to the poor was very appealing.
Here's the bump I promised, got a hold of those pictures.
I scanned and took pictures of them with my camera, with varying degrees of clarity, so sorry if the poor resolution makes it impossible to identify.
Anyways, both of these pictures include at least one ancestor of mine, in European military garb around the turn of the century (late 19th to early 20th, not sure on the exact date). We think its somewhere in Eastern Europe, just considering my lineage, but we're not sure. If anyone could identify the military dress to a specific country or military, that would be wonderful.
Scanner, smaller resolution but slightly higher quality, no flash
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Camera, higher resolution but slightly lower quality with flash
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If you need anymore pictures of specific details, like the design on the belt, I can attempt to take them and upload them.
trexeric
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My great grandfather on my mother's side served in World War One, although he never saw battle.
According to family legend an ancestor of mine on my father's side was in the American Civil War and was a traitor. The problem is that nobody knows which side he was a traitor of.
According to family legend an ancestor of mine on my father's side was in the American Civil War and was a traitor. The problem is that nobody knows which side he was a traitor of.
A traitor during the ACW? You're asking someone to come into the thread and make a joke about the War of Southern Treason there.
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Jewel Runner
But maybe he betrayed the traitors while repenting for his initial treachery.
I'm sensing an Abbot and Costello skit in the making.
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
Was the South even obliged to be loyal to anyone except itself?
If no then we shouldn't talk about a Treason.
hobbsyoyo
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My wife's grandfather fought at the battle of the buldge and came back with a helmet with a bulket hole in it. He was fired at from extreme range and the bullet just barely made it through the helmet but was stopped by the thick cap he had on under it. He was one lucky mofo.
One of my great grandfathers joined up near the end of the war as a submariner. He helped outfit his submarine with a topside rocket wrack (to bombard the shore with) and was sailing across the Pacific to assist in the Japanese home island invasion when the war ended.
One of my other great-grandfathers was drafted but had a child right before he had to report so he got exempted.
My grandfather served in Vietnam in ypthe artillery corp and is deaf as a result. He wanted to fly helicopters but was too tall.
The Spanish side of my family suffered a great deal during the civil war. They gave up my grandmother to a nunnery(?) during the war and we blame that for her being so crazy. I don't have any other details of what happened though.
One of my great grandfathers joined up near the end of the war as a submariner. He helped outfit his submarine with a topside rocket wrack (to bombard the shore with) and was sailing across the Pacific to assist in the Japanese home island invasion when the war ended.
One of my other great-grandfathers was drafted but had a child right before he had to report so he got exempted.
My grandfather served in Vietnam in ypthe artillery corp and is deaf as a result. He wanted to fly helicopters but was too tall.
The Spanish side of my family suffered a great deal during the civil war. They gave up my grandmother to a nunnery(?) during the war and we blame that for her being so crazy. I don't have any other details of what happened though.
Gen.Mannerheim
Grand Moff
Don't ask a Yankee, they think that they own the entire Western Hemisphere...
You're confusing the Yankees with the Wongs.
Gen.Mannerheim
Grand Moff
I'll accept this if you admit that the American Colonist were obliged to be loyal to to Britain and the Crown as well.
You sound like you think that the war was entirely the South's fault which it wasn't. Many Northerner's then and now criticized the Lincoln Administration's response to the crisis, heck the Senate didn't even vote the President Emergency Powers so he could approve the creation of an army...
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
600,000 were killed during the attack against Fort Sumter ???
Wow, I did not know that so many died there. According to wikipedia, nobody died there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter
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Jewel Runner
madviking
north american scum
There are never these kinds of disagreements over the Russian Civil War. 
That's because the Bolsheviks got rid of the last good guys in...the fall of 1918.There are never these kinds of disagreements over the Russian Civil War.
madviking
north american scum
That's because the Bolsheviks got rid of the last good guys in...the fall of 1918.
Good enough for my great-great-grandfather.
