[Leica] OT: My Dad and SPAM

[marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)]

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


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