Howard,
I can understand the loss of your half brother. I lost an uncle on my mother's
side of the family. He was the youngest of six siblings. Three girls, three
boys. He was killed in Guadacanal. He and two hundred and fifty other men where
on a supply ship named the U.S.S. Serpens. It was loaded with ammunition. A
barrel of explosives was dropped from a crane causing a massive explosion that
took the lives of all of them. My mother never got over it. It hung in her
psyche like an unresolved musical chord. I never knew him. He died before I was
born. When the last member of my mother's family passed in 1999, an aunt, when
we were going through her house, I found an 11x14 print of a funeral service in
Arlington National Cemetary from 1949. There were fifty caskets that held the
remains of the two hundred and fifty men killed five years earlier. I read
somewhere that congress passed an act that had the remains of U.S. troops
killed in the South Pacific Theater brought back to the states. The importance
of the sacrifices made by the Allies should never be underestimated or
forgotten.
RIch Palmer
On Sun, 2/17/19, Howard Cummer <hcummer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Subject: [LRflex] Shaver Hobbies closing
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2019, 11:12 AM
HI Rich,Thanks for sharing. Same for me. I
have a model of an Avro Lancaster bomber in the proper
livery for the plane that my half brother flew.He was shot down and killed over
Germany. I use it to tell the story to the grands.Howard
Date:
Sun, 17 Feb 2019 05:07:47 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Richard Palmer"
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
(Redacted sender
Subject: [LRflex]
Re: Shaver Hobbies closing
Howard,
Your
photos have sent me back 60+ years. Models let the
imagination take flight along with the airplanes, boats and
cars. I still have a model of the Yankee Clipper Ship
"Sovereign of the Seas" that my father carved out
of balsa wood. He made the rigging from carpet backing
thread. I also have a model of a U.S.Army Air Corps. B25
Bomber from balsa wood and a B24 bomber from solid wood that
a dear departed uncle made. He was stationed at an air base
in Georgia I believe. Models for me not only evoke memories
of the real thing but also of the people who made them.
Thanks for posting these photos.
Rich Palmer
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