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Throwback
Thursday: Veterans' Day was almost a week ago.
Maybe I can squeeze in one more Veterans' picture.
This is the
Marietta Georgia National Guard unit that my Daddy was in. It was taken in 1936 at Camp Foster,
Florida. Also some of Daddy's brothers,
maybe most, were in the same unit.
Hand printed
on the bottom of the picture is:
Co. M, 122nd
Inf, Ga. National Guard at Camp Foster, Fl., Aug 9th to 22nd 1936.
I recognize
Daddy (Edwin Tyson "Ed" Hunter, Sr.) being the 2nd man from the left
on the 2nd row.
Also I recognize
his brother (John) Stanley Hunter in the front center row with a dark shirt. Stanley turned 16 years of age just about a
month and a half before the picture was
taken.
Speaking of
Stanley, here is a family story handed down:
Once their brother Jack Hunter was sitting at the table eating
breakfast. Stanley crawled up near him,
reached and grabbed a bacon strip off his plate and started crawling quickly
away. Jack threw his fork at him and it struck and stuck in his butt. Years later a military physician examining
Stanley, asked what was that scar from, a snake bite?
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