Tuesday, June 22, 2010
BOB'S SORE FOOT
“Hey Bob! I noticed you seem to be limping a lot. Got a sore foot, or something? What happened? How did you get that? Is it serious? How long has that been going on?”
“You heard about World War 2? Yea? I was in that one, ya know, in the navy, our side, on a minesweeper. Ya heard about the big battle for Okinawa where the navy had more casualties than army with all those Japanese kamikaze airplanes , ya know, the suicide pilots crashing their planes into our ships. Every day for about four months. I thought we would not get out alive, but here I am.
“What a brave guy! You fought gallantly, perhaps heroically, without concern for your own safety==thinking only of preserving our precious freedom. That had to be a horror show. And what you got out of it is a crippling handicap. So, the battle for Okinawa is where you gave so much of yourself and got the bum foot?
“Well , no, I got it last week at my house in the kitchen when I dropped a beer bottle on my foot.”
“Then, what was all that about Okinawa and the kamikazes?”
“I just like to talk about it,”
“You heard about World War 2? Yea? I was in that one, ya know, in the navy, our side, on a minesweeper. Ya heard about the big battle for Okinawa where the navy had more casualties than army with all those Japanese kamikaze airplanes , ya know, the suicide pilots crashing their planes into our ships. Every day for about four months. I thought we would not get out alive, but here I am.
“What a brave guy! You fought gallantly, perhaps heroically, without concern for your own safety==thinking only of preserving our precious freedom. That had to be a horror show. And what you got out of it is a crippling handicap. So, the battle for Okinawa is where you gave so much of yourself and got the bum foot?
“Well , no, I got it last week at my house in the kitchen when I dropped a beer bottle on my foot.”
“Then, what was all that about Okinawa and the kamikazes?”
“I just like to talk about it,”
# posted by Noonski @ 11:35 AM 
