Love Southside blogsters! That's the fun of a blog, after all, getting to know you all in cyberspace!
I can't be there in person most of the time these days, so I really need your help keeping accurate and
up to date. Or back in history, as we go here with a good old Woodward alum and Atlanta native sharing
some inside info on a Fort McPherson fixture. He also includes a link to an interview WITH General Truman:
Byford Wagstaff :
I had the privilege of knowing General Louis W Truman, Gen Truman was Aide de Camp to Gen
Short at Pearl Harbor. He reported that the opening to the movie Pearl Harbor was a
"Damn Lie". He said they were not playing golf at the time of attack but
preparing to go to the course. He said that after the attacks were over, he picked up 5
bushel baskets of shrapnel in the small area around his quarters. Gen Truman stood behind
and defended Gen Short till is death. At Gen Truman's funeral there were howitzers used
in the 21 gun salute on the lawn of Second Ponce De Leon Baptist Church in Buckhead.
http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/trumanl.htm
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