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[limr8 6]

I don't have my parents' wedding photo scanned, but this is one I shot within a couple of months of owning my K1000. You can see the picture on the piano:

 

[Gary A.]

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My Aunt Mary, Mom, Dad and Uncle Marcy. During WWII My father and Uncle joined the Marines together.

 

[limr8 6]

Mrs Parker will cut you.

 

[limr8 6]

Zelda will cut you.

 

[limr8 6]

Awww, look, it's my kindergarten school picture!

 

[snowbear154 84]

Haha! Well, not quite. Some other guest, who wasn't actually related by blood, took that. Do you know which one I am?

I'm guessing you had shorter hair than you do now; and glasses?

 

[limr8 6]

I've got 4 minutes left to postwhore before I have to do 5 more essays.

More artsy point and shoot stuff.

 

[limr8 6]

 

[sm4him]

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My Aunt Mary, Mom, Dad and Uncle Marcy. During WWII My father and Uncle joined the Marines together.

So did my dad, one of his brothers (John, known as "Big Red") and his Uncle Tom. Well, they joined different branches, but all at the same time.


L to R: Uncle Tom, John and my dad

 

[limr8 6]

Crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2:

 

[limr8 6]

Utah Beach, Normandy:

 

[limr8 6]

Utah Beach, digital version:

 

[limr8 6]

Utah Beach, film version (Tri-X, K1000):

 

[sm4him]

Oh, and here's one I just saw while looking for that last picture.

My father's dignified manner started early on:



This must have been about 1952. Dad was NOT a farmer. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. It wasn't until he fell in love with this southern girl and got married that he ever saw the south. I think this must have been taken shortly after moving back to my mom's "home" of Knoxville, probably to show her dad that Bill was trying to be a "farmer." It didn't take--that man never planted a vegetable or even dug a hole in the dirt that I ever saw.

 

[limr8 6]

I was fascinated by the details. There was a little "museum" of random things the soldiers left behind: