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Post by trailboss on Oct 5, 2021 18:11:00 GMT -5
I figured that most of Bob's neighbors are Badgers, Buffaloes and marauding Indians.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 5, 2021 18:38:30 GMT -5
Moving a herd is when neighbors come in handy.
I have helped my neighbors move their cattle.
Fortunately, my small herd of three dozen did not require much assistance. Papa Bull led the way, knowing where to go. I mostly held up traffic on the highway. A hired man would handle the one or two youngsters wanting to stray off onto their own. There was often some boob in an SUV with out-of-state plates who would created problems crossing the highway. I will not say which state but it was one where the residents should know better but are so blasted cussed as to not cooperate!
I had my truck with flashers and a large rotating beacon on the side of the road. A Highway Department livestock sign mounted upright in the back. I would be on the road with a flag. Finally, I got to wearing an M1 Garand on a sling and that seemed to get the point across that stopping for livestock crossing was a good idea. Hard to imagine how many dumbasses we have in this part of the world.
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Post by Gandalf on Oct 5, 2021 19:17:00 GMT -5
Here is Valdemar De Herrera, 102 years young. Veteran of Bataan, former Irrigation Ditch Rider and retired mine superintendent. A neighbor for the past 24 years.  Ask him if he's every hear of a man named Jack Rogers - back many years - on Bataan. |
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Post by toshtego on Oct 5, 2021 19:34:17 GMT -5
There were a lot of guys on Bataan and Corregidor. I asked him about my uncle who was there and did not return. Regular Army. His memory of the troops over there is limited to the NM Army Guard battalion sent over in '41- Coastal Artillery.
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Post by Gandalf on Oct 5, 2021 19:41:49 GMT -5
There were a lot of guys on Bataan and Corregidor. I asked him about my uncle who was there and did not return. Regular Army. His memory of the troops over there is limited to the NM Army Guard battalion sent over in '41- Coastal Artillery. I'm sure he couldn't know everybody. Jack Rogers was my wife's grandfather. He was there. He wouldn't talk about it. He's gone now, but "rumors/speculation" are that he may have been a survivor of the Bataan Death March. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 6, 2021 9:41:47 GMT -5
 When I started working at Exxon, I was used to working hard, Exxon work was a piece of cake. We had a Compressor house with 26 piston machine going on. Half pumping gas, half pumping refergration gas needed for the process. One day I went in the Compressor house and saw a slim older man filling big buckets of oil, I went and grabbed 2 buckets and asked him where you want them. I helped him off and on all day. I was a shift worker he was a day worker Mr Lester Whitehead. One day we sat down and ate our lunch, watched him and he was so into the food, asked him Mr Lester you sure enjoy your food. That’s when he told me he was on the Batsn death March, wasn’t fond at all of McArthur, but loved Wainright. He was a good man,
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Post by toshtego on Oct 6, 2021 10:08:47 GMT -5
When I started working at Exxon, I was used to working hard, Exxon work was a piece of cake. We had a Compressor house with 26 piston machine going on. Half pumping gas, half pumping refergration gas needed for the process. One day I went in the Compressor house and saw a slim older man filling big buckets of oil, I went and grabbed 2 buckets and asked him where you want them. I helped him off and on all day. I was a shift worker he was a day worker Mr Lester Whitehead. One day we sat down and ate our lunch, watched him and he was so into the food, asked him Mr Lester you sure enjoy your food. That’s when he told me he was on the Batsn death March, wasn’t fond at all of McArthur, but loved Wainright. He was a good man, Perhaps the most disappointing event in the history of the USA, the abandonment of 60,000 US troops. That number includes Filipino Regulars. Certainly the decision was made based upon the conditions of the time. Still, not a great moment. The personnel left there did there best to defend themselves and then followed the order to surrender. Not all did. I worked for a veteran of that battle who was captured six times and escaped seven. He spent the war fighting with the Guerillas. John Coates. He was something of a mad man, bless and rest his soul. |
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 6, 2021 10:39:19 GMT -5
Hard for folks today to understand the feelings of those who lived thru the war. No way to explain how Americans felt about the Japanese, especially following Bataan and so many other "events" of that time.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 6, 2021 12:21:17 GMT -5
My cousin was at Corregidor. He spent the remainder of his life in the state mental hospital. Japanese were suspect when I was in elementary school, but by the 6th grade it was all cool. I have since had several Japanese nationals as friends. And they are very close allies.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 6, 2021 12:31:45 GMT -5
We had a meter man , was a colonel in the army, fought the Japanese, hated them with a rage, we had to hide him when we had Japanese visitors. His son s a well known Author, Robert Crais. . He had a hard hat with KOBA on the front. Loved when the new guys asked what KOBA meant. His reply was KISS OLD BOBBYS arse.! 
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Post by toshtego on Oct 6, 2021 12:46:05 GMT -5
I had another neighbor here who was a Veteran alongside Valdemar. This was Robert Medina. He was a big, strapping buy with blue eyes and fair complexion. The Japanese captors targeted him for abuse. He hated Japanese to the day he died. He ran a large aggregate quarry and delivery service. The local Moly mine made him a rich man. Anyway, he would not allow Japanese motor vehicles and equipment onto his quarry property. So, I always drove over in my Ford F-250. The Toyota remained at home.
I worked for another Veteran in California in the early 1970s. He would not accept Japanese made nails on the job site and sent me all around the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles to bring home "U.S. Steel" nails in various sizes. All I could find. The office staff of the development company told me that on his application for the job of Construction Superintendent he was asked what he liked most about his military experience? His answer? "Killing Japs". No sushi on that job site! We did have a Toyota Landcruiser along with the International Harvester trucks. I drew the Landcruiser for my job.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 6, 2021 13:16:09 GMT -5
I have had Japanese friends that I value very highly. The militarist faction in the 20s thru the mid-40s were a different story. I had two uncles in the Pacific (mentioned earlier) and we celebrated (!) Fat Man and Little Boy. Seems brutish now but quite understandable under the circumstances, I think. I was 6 and in New Orleans on VJ Day. We danced in the street!
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Post by toshtego on Oct 6, 2021 20:05:24 GMT -5
In the 1980s, it was my pleasure to work with officials of Japanese Trust Banks and help them understand the US commercial mortgage securitization market. While I did not socialize with them, I did get to know several people and enjoyed knowing them.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 6, 2021 20:25:01 GMT -5
In the 1980s, it was my pleasure to work with officials of Japanese Trust Banks and help them understand the US commercial mortgage securitization market. While I did not socialize with them, I did get to know several people and enjoyed knowing them. They are crazy to party with. We had one guy laughing so hard we got worried. |
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 6, 2021 20:49:45 GMT -5
もう少しサキ、ロンさんをお願いします!
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 6, 2021 21:52:42 GMT -5
You are going to get this thread locked with comments like that! I have no saki. |
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When I started working at Exxon, I was used to working hard, Exxon work was a piece of cake. We had a Compressor house with 26 piston machine going on. Half pumping gas, half pumping refergration gas needed for the process. One day I went in the Compressor house and saw a slim older man filling big buckets of oil, I went and grabbed 2 buckets and asked him where you want them. I helped him off and on all day. I was a shift worker he was a day worker Mr Lester Whitehead. One day we sat down and ate our lunch, watched him and he was so into the food, asked him Mr Lester you sure enjoy your food. That’s when he told me he was on the Batsn death March, wasn’t fond at all of McArthur, but loved Wainright. He was a good man, 
