Comments on: Your Stories: Honoring unsung war heroes

By: rory kiernan

rory kiernan — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:47:55 +0000

my grandad,albert threadgale was in trenches in france in ww1,he was born in 1899,so probbaly lied about his age,like so many others.he took a german sniper bullet just above the heart,went right through him.he thought it was a stonr kicked up by one of the field guns,until a comrade said”bert,you’re bleeding!he was patched up and thrown back into the system.he was taken prisoner at dunkirk,and spent the rest of ww2,as a pow in stalag xxb.he saw many men escape,but he was considered too old for escape.he died in 1976,i still miss him,he was aproper grandad..

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By: D marriott

D marriott — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:07:57 +0000

From been young we have always known that our grandad was a solider and that he was a japenese prison of war .As a child you do not understand what that means but when you get older you realise what this means 1 story was he was put in a oven for punishment thought oven (my age )now I realise it was a wooden box in the blazing sun for days on end ,he watched his friends get there kneecaps shot at this is the appalling things these men and women had to endure . Rip Robert Christie .so much respect for all these fallen heros .

By: Lynn Dietlin

Lynn Dietlin — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:56:48 +0000

For over 50 years my Mom kept the secret about what she did in the Navy WAVES during World War II. She simply said she was a radio operator if anyone asked. “Spy” would have been closer to the truth. She was part of an elite group of intercept operators who typed up Japanese radio broadcasts to be decoded. It was top secret and highly classified work. The Navy told them that they could not tell anyone what they did for 50 years or they would be shot.(That is REALLY what they told them).Mom kept quiet about this for well over 50 years. The only reason my family knows about her service job is because she brought us a copy of the local paper of her friend and fellow WAVE 3 years ago at our family Easter dinner. The reporter had called my Mom for some quotes for the article so she asked her friend to mail her a copy of the newspaper. Boy, did our jaws drop with “Why did’nt you tell us”. I am in total of my mother’s generation..dedication, service, and humility. My Mom will soon be 91 years young and looks like she’s 75. She is MY hero.