Walking in your father's footsteps.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Walking in your father's footsteps.

Posted: 5/26/2017 7:15:45 AM EDT

I have an acquaintance from back in high school that I keep in contact with thru Facebook. He and his wife are on a trip to the U.K. and Europe. Today he is going to retrace the steps his Dad took on that beach 73 years ago next week. I can only imagine what his thoughts will be as he stands there.

Posted: 5/26/2017 7:26:18 AM EDT

[#1]

I thought about retracing my father steps, but that would involve becoming a barely functioning alcoholic and my wife said I wasn't allowed to leave her & the kids when my son was three.

Posted: 5/26/2017 7:34:36 AM EDT

[#2]

My wife's uncle retraced his dads(my wife's grandfather) steps through the Battle of the Bulge. He saw all the museums and even the still thankful smaller town people and how the American defeated Germany.

After all that, he's still a flaming liberal who lives in his socialist fucked up world in his head.

Posted: 5/26/2017 7:37:37 AM EDT

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I thought about retracing my father steps, but that would involve becoming a barely functioning alcoholic and my wife said I wasn't allowed to leave her & the kids when my son was three.

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Are we brothers?

Posted: 5/26/2017 7:42:51 AM EDT

[#4]

My dad is an alcoholic asshole

So there's that

Posted: 5/26/2017 7:57:12 AM EDT

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I was trying to establish the connection of a father to his son thru Memorial Day and the anniversary of the D-Day landings. Not to initiate a scab picking contest.

GD will never fail you.

Posted: 5/26/2017 8:42:49 AM EDT

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Sounds like a cool thing to do but I wouldn't do it because it would involve rivers, danang, and running around in a hot shity jungle for a couple years....I'll just watch platoon again.

Posted: 5/26/2017 8:50:53 AM EDT

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Are there going to be people vacationing in Iraq and Afghanistan 70 years from now, vicariously reliving their fathers valor?

I dunno.

Posted: 5/26/2017 8:52:11 AM EDT

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I'm not sure I want to crawl through any jungles in Vietnam.

Posted: 5/26/2017 11:13:59 AM EDT

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I've often tried to envision the life my dad lived and the events that made him the man I knew.Peleliu and Okinawa, it's hard to imagine the hell he lived through.Seeing the places would be interesting.

Posted: 5/26/2017 1:04:07 PM EDT

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Thanks Mikey. I lost my old man my senior year of high school. We were just getting to a point where we could talk about his younger days when he passed. Never got to hear his story.

Some of these responses.....

Posted: 5/26/2017 1:28:05 PM EDT

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Same here. He said he didn't even know where in Vietnam (or if he was even in Vietnam) he was sometimes, so I don't know that I'd be able to go if I had the chance.
Besides, I'm not too interested in a fucking jungle to begin with. I share his hatred of humidity.

Posted: 5/26/2017 1:43:49 PM EDT

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I think a more pragmatic thing for myself to consider would be to retrace the footsteps that we walked together. I need to get myself out to some of those small forest creeks that we used to plod through in the dead of winter checking his trap lines when I was a boy.

Damn it, more importantly, I need to take my own son with me to these areas and explain him the history.

Posted: 5/26/2017 1:51:59 PM EDT

[#13]

My dad was in Korea, np interest in going.

Posted: 5/26/2017 2:22:20 PM EDT

[#14]

I think walking in his footsteps may have been fun, but those two probably died of the pox in the 70's or 80's.

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