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@nitpicking@mstdn.party
2025-10-18 22:23:19

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My dad fought in World War Two. Irv Fink's Fifth Armored Division crossed Utah Beach, fought across France and to the border of Belgium, then turned and fought into Luxembourg, liberated Luxembourg City, went back to France and fought toward Germany through the Battle of the Bulge and the Huertgen Forest. He was wounded, but quickly returned to his unit and did the most dangerous job in the Army: as a medical corpsman, he went into No Man's Land to retrieve the wounded for…

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-10-17 15:47:53

If it were not for the mundane responsibilities of my life that cannot be shirked, I would be attending this one.
Incidentally, #Baldwin is a *small* town. <1k people embedded in public forest. Just west of the historic Idlewild resort area. I expect that it would be a marginally less vehemently white crowd than in most similarly rural areas. And the leaves have got to be spectacularly col…