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They will occasionally show "old" movies at our theatre - Today was White Christmas. What a great movie to see on the big screen. (still don't want a white Christmas though)
 
Trivial Pursuit:

The song "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" was first publicly performed by Bing Crosby on Christmas Day, 1941, on the Kraft Music Hall (radio). That was just a few weeks after the Pearl Harbor and Phillippines attacks.

So ... What film did that song first appear in?

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Tom
 
"I'll Be Home for Christmas" Was what I recall my Old Man giving more import.

...more than that I will not mention. I only missed one Christmas at home for a deployment...

The Greatest Generation were absent in numbers. We owe. My dad survived, only wounded. Too many never saw their next Christmas.
 
When I hear the song "White Christmas" I see my dad... silenly crying.
 
Thank you doc.... I just pulled out my dad's photo that was hiding behind some junk on my desk... it is a photo of him taken during the war and he's wearing his Eisenhower jacket with the Third Division patch.
It is now much more prominent on my desk :thankyousign:
 
Elliot, the tears are running down my cheeks.


Hold those people dear.
 
I have Dad's pix (not gonna post), my really best friends' pix not postable either... B-24 navigator. Keep 'em off th' 'net.
 
I've got my pops Eisenhower jacket. Signal Corps. Warrant Officer, combat photog, radio and cryptography. I wear his ring. Miss the man. Born in 07, fought so others wouldn't have to. Every day is Memorial Day.
 
Oh, el... I was Combat Camera... in the "conflict" one. 601st Photo.


I wore an uncle's Ike jacket in High school, one of the reasons I joined the Air Force (<span style="font-style: italic">the uncle, not the jacket</span>).
 
So I understand and thank you for your service. I made the mistake of getting into my father's archives when I was small. An instant education in the horrors of war.
 
Gliderman8 said:
Thank you doc.... I just pulled out my dad's photo that was hiding behind some junk on my desk... it is a photo of him taken during the war and he's wearing his Eisenhower jacket with the Third Division patch.
It is now much more prominent on my desk :thankyousign:
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Elliot, Doc, It's a shame how we get caught up in the times and how we loose track of some of the most important times of our lives, which are brought forward to joggle our memory's by so many different things. My dad went through the war, first in the Army and then signed up for the Merchant Marine Academy in Sheeps Head Bay New York. He made three trips with food, avgas and munitions. Two to England and the last to Italy. He somehow survived the U-Boat attacks and passed on a couple years ago at 90. Reading your articles reminded me to put his photo back on our desk. We miss him dearly. He was a wonderful man! A hero in my book. PJ
 
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