Bob Wright
Hawkeye
My Dad did take an interest in me when I was a youngster, he just showed it in a different way. And, as y being my "Buddy"........
My Dad took me to a fireworks display when I was a youngster. This was held at the old Memphis Fairgrounds. One thing I remember was the animated scenes all done in fireworks. One scene I remember showed an LST landing, opening its bow doors and lowering the ramp. A goose waddled out across he screen then laid "the golden egg." This all in fireworks. And there were aerial displays of streamer and bombs. The whole show lasted maybe an hour.
On the way home, Dad picked up one of those fiber wads from a mortar. Tis a disc about five inches in diameter amd maybe 3/16" thick, of gray colored fiber/cardboard.
When I awoke the next morning it was on the table by my bed. Written in blue ink and in my Dad's beautiful handwriting was this:
"Robert's first fireworks, Sept. --,1944 "The Bombing of Berlin"
Your Buddy, Dad."
Kept that over the years but it disappeared over the years. Wish I still had it.
Bob Wright
My Dad took me to a fireworks display when I was a youngster. This was held at the old Memphis Fairgrounds. One thing I remember was the animated scenes all done in fireworks. One scene I remember showed an LST landing, opening its bow doors and lowering the ramp. A goose waddled out across he screen then laid "the golden egg." This all in fireworks. And there were aerial displays of streamer and bombs. The whole show lasted maybe an hour.
On the way home, Dad picked up one of those fiber wads from a mortar. Tis a disc about five inches in diameter amd maybe 3/16" thick, of gray colored fiber/cardboard.
When I awoke the next morning it was on the table by my bed. Written in blue ink and in my Dad's beautiful handwriting was this:
"Robert's first fireworks, Sept. --,1944 "The Bombing of Berlin"
Your Buddy, Dad."
Kept that over the years but it disappeared over the years. Wish I still had it.
Bob Wright
