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[previous] My chest I have my Airborne jump wings, which I'm very proud of and the three highest ranking medals I received, I have the Bronze Star with a Combat V, I have the Purple Heart, and I have a combat action ribbon, which verifies my combat service. On the right hand side is a reverence to PTSD and it says "all wounds are not visible" and that is a tribute to PTSD. The first tattoo I got was this, it used to say Maria, who is my wife, who has since passed away, 8 years ago. I got a little boxer, because I used to do a little boxing, then I got a US Navy tattoo. I got that in 1952. I was in the Navy, and our whole platoon, went to hospital corps school because they were loosing corpsman left and right in Korea -- we graduated, went to field training, went to Camp Pendleton and then to Korea. I got all these by myself, no one went with me. I got what I wanted as memories, the one for my wife, I did some time with 5th comm battalion, I have a smaller one there. These here were standard tattoos, everybody got them, a dagger with your name on it and Cupie dolll. This is FNF Fox 2/7 who I served with in Korea. I don't remember the tattoo artist who did them, I went to tattoo shops in San Diego. |
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