Sunday Pic of the Day

[Wildabeest]

I’m going to miss this when she grows up.

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Talk about things that’ll make a tough man cry! Good on you for doing the things that result in her writing something like that.

 

[BAKPAKR]

Spring has sprung!

 

[Randy11]

While in Missoula for sports, I did the thing my family perpetually mocks me for and walked through the cemetery, taking pictures and googling names.

Fort Missoula Cemetery

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Ole Beck - immigrated from Sweden to Polson, Montana at 10 years of age. Died of diphtheria in France. Has a VFW post named after him.

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Gerald Diettert - brother of Eldon Diettert, who at the age of 19 died in the fire at Mann Gulch. Gerald was really active in his community. Wrote a book on George Bird Grinnell, as well as another on the history of the Boy Scouts.
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Stryder Stoutenburg - born the same year as myself, except in 2003 when he passed, I was a clueless POS doing nothing and he was serving his country. Died in a helicopter accident at Fort Drum. RIP.

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Very cool.

I grew up next door to the cemetery, but haven't been through there in a long time.

When the War ended and my Granddad got home from Europe, he wanted to build a house. He went over and took enough boards from the internment barracks to build the house that I grew up in.