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One has to be online in order to find out about job openings, but when one is online, one never leaves CollegeHumor.com.
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Microphones for the questioners. Sabres enter the 20th century.
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The very definition of a labor of love. Good luck on your quest, PA. You honor your dad, Pappy, and the countless other Pappies, known and unknown.
Thanks. That's too kind. I just think it would be awesome to find out what kind of man your father was. Having said that, according to the Find a Grave site, he was born in 1921, making him probably 20 or 21 when he went to war. So maybe there were no kids. The Census report did show he had several much younger siblings, so they could still be around, in their late 70s or early 80s. Would be a nice late-life surprise to read about their brother. Beyond that, we're down to nieces and nephews. Still cool...
If that's even Pappy...
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It is. But I don't think many of those guys have done it again with another team.
Just Bowman in the modern era.
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So when was the last time that was true? Bowman for sure, but after that?
Muckler.
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Never easy in Buffalo is it....
Well said.
I dream of the day visiting this board isn't like reading lecture notes and having to do homework.
A real hockey team, real games to discuss. Please, soon!
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Good luck, this sounds like a cool project. You can give Ancestry.com a try, too, if you haven't. A quick search I did of that name and location popped some stuff up on him, including a link to Find A Grave. I have a subscription to the site, so if you run into a paywall on there let me know, I'll send you any info you want.
Thanks!
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It's allowed, but the Sabres should be forcing the Penguins to blink first. No way can a team want to get the reputation they would get if they don't let Bylsma walk.
But from the Pens' point of view, don't you think they might have the Sabres over a barrel? The Sabres can't let Bylsma too slip away, and Pegula certainly has a reputation of someone who's willing to overspend (in this case, being willing to give up the highest of the picks).
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How 'bout saying "Both series are going to a Game 7?" Avoid the awkwardness.
The old write-around. Good advice.
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I would've missed this, had I not revisited it.
Better smellin' -- Kim Pegula or John Wawrow -- WHO YA GOT?!
I love the smell of Wawrow in the (very early) morning.
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In the Awesome thread, Ghost mentioned re-reading my dad's World War II memoir over Memorial Day. Others chimed in with some kind words. Thanks again. "Pappy" is the name my dad gave to his best friend during the war. My dad called him a hero for taking him under his wing and mentoring him from the start, protecting him.
The mentions reminded me that after the book was printed, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out Pappy's real name. I wanted to get a copy of the book to any of his descendants, maybe his kids. I got nowhere. It was a long shot.
The only clues I have are that my dad remembered that Pappy was in his late 20s — hence the "old man" nickname — and hailed from "out west." My dad determined through his research, using the official history of the Seventh Regiment (Third Division), that Pappy died on March 15, 1945.
The regimental history lists those killed in action by date. Six members of his company (K) died that day. This is where deciphering history gets interesting. Only one of the men came from what I would consider "out west." Fred A. Scott of Port Angeles, Washington. Others came from Illinois, Michigan, Brooklyn, North Carolina and Kentucky. My dad had a great memory, but maybe "midwest" turned into "out west" in his memory. I was able to rule out the man from Illinois. He had an unusual name, and I found out he was even younger than my dad. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=106881021
I am foggy on the details, but in my original quest more than 10 years ago, I thought the Michigan man was a hot lead. I wrote a letter to a family member; the connection was shot down, but I don't remember why. So everything points to Fred Scott — except if it's the same Fred Scott from the 1940 census in Port Angeles, he was only two years older than my dad. Again — memory can be faulty. To a kid right out of high school entering combat in World War II, maybe someone just a couple of years older, with over a year's combat under his belt, would have seemed much older. Like my dad said, by the time he turned 21 near the end of the war, he felt like he was 50.
I didn't know anything about a Freedom of Information Act request to get a soldier's Individual Deceased Personnel File until today. So I filed one for Fred Scott. I hope there are enough details in the file to confirm that he was Pappy. I did feel a little strange making the request. Invasion of privacy? Would the descendants, if I can ever find any, be bothered that I "snooped around"? But I concluded that since the information is available to the public, and the man has been dead for over 70 years, and I'm trying to do something good here, I shouldn't feel bad.
It's going to be awhile, I'm sure, before anything comes back. I'll update. Meanwhile, if anyone's done research like this and can offer additional advice, please feel free. I do have Fred's serial number.
I didn't want to clog up the Awesome thread with this and thought it might be an interesting summer diversion/unsolved mystery. It could certainly branch out to similar stories some of you might have, genealogy success stories, tips and tricks, and so on.
Thanks for reading all that. SDS pays me by the word. It comes out of chz's per diem, but she hasn't caught on yet.
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For the love of God, yes.
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@john_wawrow: Person familiar with talks tells AP that Dan Bylsma is having a second meeting with #Sabres as we speak.
Uh oh.
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So when do we accuse Stepner of being a puppet of the Sabres? That is the standard approach around here, right?
Not puppet per se. But someone the Sabres decided to leak to? jw can chime in here, but this isn't Woodward and Bernstein stuff. Steps isn't knocking door to door out in Clarence, triangulating his well-cultivated sources, meeting behind the destroyer in the Naval Park with "Deep Throat."
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It's go time, baby. It's go time.
(That's the Seinfeld guy, right? He'd make an excellent avatar for you PA)
What, you think your avatar's better than mine?
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Expect Terry Pegula to build a secret tunnel under the FNC for the next coaching search.
Next January? Good idea. It'll be sub-zero again. And Lindy doesn't have a lot of protection for that coconut anymore.
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No, no here's what happened. In 10th grade gym class, the boys ran a race. Mr. Mandelbaum hadn't fired the starting gun yet and jw took off and won going away, literally, a huge upset. Ghost never forgot and has been challenging jw to a rematch ever since. jw has always said he would never race again. Now, in middle age, he wants to go.
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Uh oh PA...looks like we may have gotten GoDD too! You may be last man standing.
Something's up with Yuri too. And Ink is all domestimicated. I will hold down the fort. At least there's still Swamp. Would be nice to land Hoss, but he's looking to be the highest paid Weekend Storm Clouder in history.
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Can I get it on this copy? The fact I don't know what it is makes me want it that much more.
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Thanks for the kind words, all.
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He won't be laughing when the robot smoker smokes him.
Uhhh...
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I like the "Buffalo is becoming the cradle of USA Hockey" more than than any other part of that statement.
It is their reason for existence, so, that's awesome.
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A nice compromise was the old Pens' PA guy, John Barbero, now dearly departed. He played it pretty straight, except Mario Lemyoooooooooooooooooooooo.
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I don't suppose anyone would be brave enough to record and post their Milt Ellis impression?
5 Burning Questions, Dicso Dan Bylsma Edition 5/29/15
in The Aud Club
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Nah.
DDBB (Disco Dan Brian Bylsma)
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Ending up in the ladies restroom with that water bottle you're always holding in your pants.