Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I hope you are planning to move with haste to preserve what you have in a number of formats. As the surviving link, your remembrances, either as writings or video clips, are true treasures for your family and historians. I might be stating the obvious in all this... My last comment is: All this from a can of Spam.... > Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:22:10 -0400 > To: lug at leica-users.org > From: marcsmall at comcast.net > Subject: [Leica] OT: My Dad and SPAM > > At 07:30 PM 3/28/2009, Gary Dalton wrote: > > > >That's a great story! > > My Dad had a fascinating year in Alaska. There > are lots of stories. I took Dad to his final > meeting with his guys at the 260th Artillery > Association meeting in 1995, and some of his > folks travelled just to see him again, after 53 > years. On a camera note, I do have the single > roll of 8mm movie film (Kodacrhome, of course) > which Dad managed to film in Alaska, with a > second reel taken during his prospecting trip > north of Fairbanks in '48. And the movie > projector yet works, so I do watch these reels > from time to time. (I do NOT watch the dozens of > reels shot of my sister and myself in our toddler > days! Those, I will leave to my son. HE can > watch them, after I am gone from this vale of tears.) > > I probably ought to write up a monograph about > Dad's time of command of G/260th CA (AA). All of > the principals are dead now. I finally arranged > for Dad's ashes to be interred at Arlington in > 2006, and the Regimental Adjutant showed up. He > died ten days later. I then corresponded with > Dad's XO, and he died three months later. > > I'd like to have that one reel copied and given > to some archive but I will not let it out of my > possession. So far, the military historians and I are at a stand-off. > > Marc > > > msmall at aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail? is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009