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buzzycrumbhunger

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3. Agreed

Reply to lastlib (Original post)

Mon May 25, 2026, 07:04 PM

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I think my granddad was the only one in our family who was in the military. Served in France in WW I and never talked about it. He sent my gran (then his fiancée, I think) a pewter box filled with French hankies and a book of love poems (very Victorian), which are my only keepsakes of him--and the war. Had to have been quite an experience for a farm boy from Iowa.

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"The best way to honor our war dead.... [View all] lastlib Monday OP

The dumb felon enjoys seeing people killed. Walleye Monday #1

trump likes to think they died for him...nt Wounded Bear Monday #8

President of the United States is one sadistic fuck. Walleye Monday #10

The last resort! surfered Monday #2

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O. M. G. calimary Monday #9

And to never vilify our honorable war dead Grim Chieftain Monday #4

And is HELL-BENT on DESTROYING what they died for. lastlib Monday #12

He doesn't have a functioning brain either MustLoveBeagles Monday #5

The best way he could honor our war dead slightlv Monday #6

Did he play golf today????? popsdenver Monday #7

And to uphold the highest ideals for which they sacrificed so much Martin Eden Monday #11