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Originally Posted by Eric
And, on a lighter note, the biggest fight of his life was keeping my gran from dismembering me when I dropped his medals down the grate outside her house.
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can sympathize with that , when I was about 17 I "borrowed" my Grandads WW1 and my Dads WW2 medals and pinned them on my parka (it was the time of Sgt. Pepper etc) when my Dad saw them he went ballistic .......wasn't the fact I had borrowed them, it was that I had the wrong ribbons on the wrong medals that 'upset' him .
as an aside the medals are now with my Son for safekeeping , he keeps them with his wife's Fathers and Grandfathers medals from the same conflicts , but these were awarded by the Kaiser and Adolf
