CW3SF 0 Posted April 18, 2009 Charles A Chaboud has left us. My friend and a hero of France. Visits with him and his wife in Gurs France were the highlights during several trips to Europe. At the start of WW11 his father went to fight with the underground. Charles, just a boy of 16, was told to fight for his country. He did just that. During one of the early actions he helped a small young lad carry a heavy machine gun up a hill---- Worst mistake he ever made he said. Carried that damn heavy thing for the rest of the war. Charles was a tall and tough guy, but also very funny. We spent the 50th anv. of D-day in the local bar. Now that was a day to remember except most of those brain cells were washed clean with wine. Not many of the WW11 gang left. CW3SF Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Herr Prop-Wasche 7 Posted April 18, 2009 My sincere condolences on the loss of your comrade, CW3SF. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Duce Lewis 3 Posted April 18, 2009 My condolances on your loss CW3SF We all owe our freedom to heros like him who sacrificed on our behave Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dej 17 Posted April 18, 2009 If ever there were qualifications for immortality, then to fight and die for democracy should be one of them. They pass from our gaze too soon for us fully to appreciate them, these heroes. God rest them all. But in a sense they are immortal, if we are fortunate enough to be touched by their lives... they live on in our memories. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rickitycrate 10 Posted April 19, 2009 CW3SF, good of you to remember your friend to us. Thank you. And my thanks to anyone who reads this and have served the cause of freedom. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RAF_Louvert 101 Posted April 19, 2009 A full parade dress soldier's salute to Charles A Chaboud. Let us never forget those who have offered themselves up to protect the basic human rights of freedom and dignity. May they all find their eternal reward in God's kingdom. No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. Salute! Lou Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
