Being a Ham Radio Operator I have the chance to talk to people around the country and the world. Not too long ago, I was talking to a guy (just a random contact, never heard him on the air or talked to him before) in upstate new york. I am in Connecticut. Any way the conversation drifted to history and ww2. To make a long story short, not only was his dad and mine in the same outfit (65th Combat Engineers 25th ID PTO), his dad as a 1st LT signed my Dads papers promoting him to master sgt in 1944 and I had the origional document! He had NOTHING from his dads war days and of course I sent him a copy of what I had and he was thrilled. I would have had a better chance of having an audience with the pope on the dark side of the moon that running into this guy on the air......................
Indeed it is KMB57! And welcome to the forum by the way. I've had my own "Wow" moment. I corresponded with a Soldier (random post to a Geocache he had set out in Bagram) when he was in Afghanistan back in 2004/5 and found out he would be driving within 15 miles of our house when he returned home. Of course the Invite went out and he stopped by for a two day visit.
Welcome adn that is good story. Please feel free to post the documents and tell us more about your father.
Since it is titled, "it is a small world", I am breaking the news brought to us by these science writers... Canada has become U.S. coast in this article....no shortage of comments on it either.....I would add most ham operators always know where they are and who they are speaking to when they make a connection and I think it is an admirable hobby that informs. This article has to do with debris washing up on Canada's beaches. Boat Lost in Japan Tsunami Washes Up in Canada - Yahoo! News Forgive me if it is a little off topic.
It truly is a small world! Two years ago I was staying on a campsite in the Eifel region of Germany where I met two dutch brothers (Joel and Tim). We got talking and Joel told me that he was in a 101st Airborne re-enactment group and that he had been in Normandy with them the previous year for the D-Day celebrations. I told him that I had also been there at that time and had taken photos of a group of 101st re-enactors in St Mere-Eglise, one of whom stood out the most as he had a mohican haircut, to which Joel replied "that was probably me". When I returned home I compared the photo of the re-enactor in Normandy with one I had taken of Joel in Germany and sure enough it was the same person! Spooky eh!
