Eric was attending the Floyd, Virginia, Veterans Day parade with his jeep Short Round when he was given the opportunity to add a couple special passengers to his drive.
He writes, “Shortly after I got there I was approached by some people that had a WWII Veteran that would like to ride in the jeep. I was more that honored as this was really the main reason I had brought the jeep to the parade.
The Veteran was Marvin Nolen, 93 yrs old, Navy, of the Pacific Theater WWII. Landing Craft Support Ship #47 1943-46.
Another Veteran Sgt. Lawrence Woods of the USAAF Panama, 97 years old was picked up from his house when his friends knew my jeep was there. Sgt. Woods helped train pilots for both theaters of war.”
Awesome. Thank you Eric for taking time from your life to Honor These Great Men in such a small way. Makes me wonder how many dry eyes were in the crowd.
That’s great!
Way to go, great pic.
No better use for a jeep than to honor are WWII Veterans and all Veterans, Thank You Eric!
Can’t imagine it can be said enough-Gentlemen, thank you for your Service !
It was an honor and seeing the crowds reaction to these Vets, it brought tears of emotion to my eyes.
Thumbs up!
Those men are National Treasures and should be treated as such. God bless the Greatest Generation.
my father also contributed to the war effort – friendly bombartment of MORTSEL (belgium) but i admire the courage of the soldiers in belgium during the battle of the bulge – my greatest respect –
The fellow who used to do my sandblasting was a WWII Veteran. He retired from working on the Alaskan Pipeline and started a small sandblasting business here in NC. I had him blast many a Jeep. I may have the details a little mixed up (he had so many interesting stories), but he told me that we was delivering hot food in a Studebaker Weasel to the front lines in the snow (it may have been the Battle of the Bulge) and the metal containers of food started to explode, this kept up for some time and it confused him until he realized that he was being fired on by a German sniper, he bailed out of the Weasel and shortly thereafter the whole thing exploded. He remembered a long cold walk back to his unit. For some reason that story always stuck with me. Too bad that most of these fellows are now gone.