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Re-enactors set up tents, share passion for history at Dade Battlefield
By DAVID R. CORDER, Daily Sun
BUSHNELL— Preservation is more than just a word to Charlie Hildebrant. It’s an obligation to the retired Wildwood resident and the reason short term rentals orlando why he attended the World War II commemoration Saturday at Dade Battlefield Historic origin of the term fruitless war State Park in Bushnell.
Park rangers from Florida Department of Environmental Protection, with help long term affects of cocain from a staff of volunteers from the Bushnell-area the hartford term life insurance community, staged the event in remembrance of Japan’s agreement Aug. 14, 1945, to surrender.
“I’m very pleased with how things are going,” George Webb, a Dade Battlefield park ranger and event
co-coordinator, said. “All in all, it’s a good event.”
Re-enactors donned olive green long term effects of permissive parenting uniforms replete with historic insignias, exhibited vintage small definition of golf term provisional arms and other military equipment and long term medicaid laws nebraska demonstrated weapons capabilities to tax brackets short term capital gains an enthusiastic group of visitors.
This is the long term survival sixth year re-enactors encamped at the historic state park, Webb said.
“Everybody here is having a good insurance term definitions time,” Webb said. “They’re coming to remember those days all ohio long term care partnership program those years ago, but there are so few World War II veterans still around. What I’m trying to do is thank them all while they’re still here.”
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“This year the way gasoline geoffrey chaucher s term paper is a lot of the re-enactors couldn’t make it,” Webb short term money growt said. “We still got a pretty good turnout of visitors. I’m hoping next year it will be just as good a turnout.”
Word of the event was enough to attract technical term baked cake Kermit “Tony” Bushur, a Clermont resident who survived the sinking Nov. 26, 1943, of the troop transport ship — the HMT Rohna — off the coast of Algeria in the Mediterranean Sea.
A German airplane missile attack on the Rohna killed 1,138 men, including 1,015 U.S. soldiers. Though not highly publicized term for a french student then, the U.S. later acknowledged the attack as the single greatest sea tragedy in the country’s military history.
“We were in a convoy en route to New Delhi, India,” Bushur said. “I saw the missile coming down from the plane at about 11 o’clock. I the term portal to port heard the explosion, but I had no idea then at the devastation.”
On rescue, Bushur was deployed to the Burma campaign as a member of Merrill’s Marauders, a famed U.S. Army Rangers battalion that provided logistical support to China in its war with Japan. He was wounded during intense fighting at Nhpum Ga, a Burmese city.
“They were going to amputate my leg,” Bushur recalled about the surgeons’ initial prognosis and their final decision to reconsider it. “I was lucky.”
Because of the service of veterans like Bushur, Hildebrant has dedicated his retirement long term parking portland oregon airport years to restoring lomg term rental durango colorado WW II military vehicles.
“If I don’t do it, who will?” Hildebrant asked. “Because when they’re gone, they’re gone. Our sole purpose is to restore these vehicles for an historic purpose.”
Hildebrant and other members of the 1st chapter of the Military Vehicle Preservation Association were among dozens of military re-enactors from throughout the state to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the war’s psychological term bullied to bullier end.
During short term web hosting the event, Hildebrant displayed a 1942 jeep and a 1943 term downtime urban slang personnel weapons carrier. They look fit for battle, too.
“I remember one veteran who stopped by one time and told me he rode (the weapons carrier) all the way to France,” Hildebrant added. “You know, they start remembering, and tears come down their eyes.”
David R. Corder is a reporter with the Daily Sun. He can be reached at 753-1119, ext. 9066, or [email protected].
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