Where your' family have served in war or times of conflict

[ParadiceCity9]

Oh forgot to mention my dad was in the Panama Invasion. It makes him sound cool, since it was an 'invasion'.

[Jenos Ridan]

My dad spent 3 years escorting convoys in the North Atlantic.

I bet he has some stories to tell about those trips.

[muy_thaiguy]

I guess i could google it, but when was the battle of Vicksburg? The civil war?
And what was the Texas revoultio -is that when they joined the States?

Fair play if you respond, GOOGLE GOOGLE GOOGLE.

Texas Revolution was the war between the inhabitants of what is now Texas and Mexico.

Vicksburg, yeah, that was the Civil War (if I'm not mistaken).

[Jenos Ridan]

Vicksburg was the Civil War, won in the same week as Gettysburg if I recall.

[protectedbygold]

Texas Revolution was the war between the inhabitants of what is now Texas and Mexico.

I visited Austin a few years back and they never cease to brag about how they stood up to the Mexican Army. Those people were some of the most patriotic I've ever encountered and damn, could they barbeque!!

[joecoolfrog]

My Grandfather and 3 Uncles died in WW2 which was more than enough for my family.
I certainly respect certain segments of the armed forces and admire acts of bravery but detest the patriotic nonsense that makes out that every soldier is a hero or that every war is justified. There is nothing heroic in commiting acts of genocide or murdering innocent civilians, nothing very dignified either in throwing ex soldiers ( good and bad ) on the scrap heap when they have outlived their usefullness.

[jonesthecurl]

My Grandfather and 3 Uncles died in WW2 which was more than enough for my family.
I certainly respect certain segments of the armed forces and admire acts of bravery but detest the patriotic nonsense that makes out that every soldier is a hero or that every war is justified. There is nothing heroic in commiting acts of genocide or murdering innocent civilians, nothing very dignified either in throwing ex soldiers ( good and bad ) on the scrap heap when they have outlived their usefullness.

I was going to add something, but I don't think I need to. If I were a generation younger I'd have just said "word".

[edsdad]

My dad spent 3 years escorting convoys in the North Atlantic.

I bet he has some stories to tell about those trips.

He used to say the worse runs where to Murmansk in Russia.Said he didn't mind the trip or the u boats.What he hated was the reception the Russians gave them.After they arrived in port the Russians used to post guards at the end of their gang planks so they could'nt get off.Needles to say he wasn't a big fan of the Russians

[Gypsys Kiss]

My maternal grandfather served in Holland and survived, his father and uncle fought on the Somme and survived, while another uncle fought at Galipolli and died, yet another uncle was in the Navy and survived. My paternal grandfather was in Northern france and survived.

My partners uncle was killed during the Anzio landings, another uncle is buried in a local churchyard with a proper Wargrave headstone, but his demise is clouded in mystery. Two great uncles were killed 24hrs apart, one in France and one in Belgium, in the first week of November 1918. Another great uncle was in the Navy and was torpedoed and rescued, a day later his rescue ship was also torpedoed, he wasnt lucky a second time.

So, I guess my family were the luckier of the two.

[btownmeggy]

I guess i could google it, but when was the battle of Vicksburg? The civil war?
And what was the Texas revoultio -is that when they joined the States?

Fair play if you respond, GOOGLE GOOGLE GOOGLE.

As others have indicated, Battle of Vicksburg was in the US Civil War, happened the same week as Gettysburg, and was a huge defeat for the Confederates (for whom my ancestors fought).

Texas Revolution was fought in 1836 between "Texican" Independentists and the Mexican Army. My ancestors included both rebels and loyalists. The Texicans won and then became an a country for about a decade. Texas voluntarily became a state in 1845... which quickly led to the "Mexican War", a border dispute between the US and Mexico and one of the first great feats of American imperialism.

[2dimes]

My paternal Grandad served in France WW I.

My maternal Great Grandad met his second wife, my maternal Great Grandma in a military hospital in Britain WW I, not sure where he served.

[albertq]

my grandad played tonsil hockey with churchill down in the bunkers of france during the somme

[2dimes]

my grandad played tonsil hockey with churchill down in the bunkers of france during the somme

You really should have added the part where they handcuffed hitler naked to a tree and rolled his sherman tank into a lake.

[albertq]

my grandad played tonsil hockey with churchill down in the bunkers of france during the somme

You really should have added the part where they handcuffed hitler naked to a tree and rolled his sherman tank into a lake.

they ran over the feet of all the ugly germans nearby as well

[Jelman9099]

My dad never served, he got out of the draft for Vietnam by paying the $100's for it (which is like several $10,000's today.)

[albertq]

My dad never served, he got out of the draft for Vietnam by paying the $100's for it (which is like several $10,000's today.)

he has my undying respect

[ignotus]

My father's side:
My grandpa was drafted in March 1941. When Hitler attacked Yugoslavia in April the were sent to front, but Germans already broke the defenses so they were sent back to axillary front but all they found was empty trenches and all the officers fled. So as a corporal he went back home. He traded with sheeps (as he did before he was drafted). A year later he was killed on his doorstep by Chetniks. Although he wasn't in the Independent State of Croatia's (Fascist marionette state) army he was buried with a rank of captain (for propaganda purposes, because he was chief of his village) and the grandmother didn't complain because she got a full pension like he was a captain all this time. When communist (partizan) regime came to power they declared them enemies of the state and my granny was sent to jail and my father and his brothers and sister were sent to orphanage for one year. My father participated in recent (1991-1995) war. He even volunteered (took me too, so we both volunteered; I was 9, he was 60) but he was declared as too old he was stationed only in territorial defense forces.

My mother's side:
My grandpa and grandma smuggled food on the wagons to the partizans during the WWII. Three of my uncles participated in recent war, one was even commander of a brigade (140th HV).

[btownmeggy]

My dad never served, he got out of the draft for Vietnam by paying the $100's for it (which is like several $10,000's today.)

You're confused... on many levels.

[Jelman9099]

HOW?

[btownmeggy]

HOW?

In Vietnam you couldn't pay to escape the draft (that practice ended with... the Civil War?).

Also, a few hundred dollars in the 60s DOES NOT equal tens of thousands of dollars today.

[0ojakeo0]

korea vietnam for one grandpa, and the pacific for the other during ww2

[Mr. Squirrel]

My great-grandfather survived D-day (on the American side of course). Lucky guy. Other than that, my family hasn't really been in any wars.

[Jelman9099]

History buff gods help her!!!

[jonesthecurl]

A distant relative has apparently been doing some family history, and discovered an ancestor who fought at Trafalgar. (The battle that is, not the big square in London)

[InkL0sed]

A distant relative has apparently been doing some family history, and discovered an ancestor who fought at Trafalgar. (The battle that is, not the big square in London)

Thanks for the clarification.