If you've been reading this blog for a while, you know that I've written a number of posts on how bicycles have been used in the military.
Mind you, I'm not a war buff. But I do find military history--as history--to be very interesting on many levels. And, even though I hope that the human race will one day decide that war is obsolete, I think this nation (and all others) should give veterans the respect they deserve and the care they need.
Many of those veterans have used bicycles on and off-duty. So, today I thought I'd share a couple of photos the SF Gate published as part of their tribute to veterans three years ago.
Here, Pfc Horace Boykin rides a "captured" bicycle as he and his Marine comerades (l-to-r) Corporal Willis T. Anthony, Pfc Emmit Shackelford and Pfc Eugene Purdy take time out from supplying the front line in Saipan in 1944.
A year later, we see Seaman Paul Gray riding a Japanese bicycle in Tokyo. A victory lap, perhaps?
I wonder whether any of those guys are still around.
Mind you, I'm not a war buff. But I do find military history--as history--to be very interesting on many levels. And, even though I hope that the human race will one day decide that war is obsolete, I think this nation (and all others) should give veterans the respect they deserve and the care they need.
Many of those veterans have used bicycles on and off-duty. So, today I thought I'd share a couple of photos the SF Gate published as part of their tribute to veterans three years ago.
Here, Pfc Horace Boykin rides a "captured" bicycle as he and his Marine comerades (l-to-r) Corporal Willis T. Anthony, Pfc Emmit Shackelford and Pfc Eugene Purdy take time out from supplying the front line in Saipan in 1944.
A year later, we see Seaman Paul Gray riding a Japanese bicycle in Tokyo. A victory lap, perhaps?
I wonder whether any of those guys are still around.
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