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A Great American Turns 72 Today
#1747214
05/26/16 08:05 PM
05/26/16 08:05 PM
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 16,495
Guntersville
AC870
OP
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Guntersville
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A great American, my dad Don Campbell, turns 72 today.
His achievements:
- War hero (sniper in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965, Purple Heart & Bronze Star)
- Author, he wrote his war memoirs in a book called “The Missing Horsemen"
- Married to the same woman, Sandra Dispennett Campbell, 50 years come October
- Champion pee-wee football coach
- First fire chief and among the founders of Ga. Mtn. Volunteer Fire Dept.
- Deacon and Sunday school officer for many years at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church
- Retired lineman from Redstone Arsenal
- Entrepreneur, started his own heating & cooling business years ago
- Cancer survivor and overall armor-plated son-of-a-gun. He ate bacon and eggs the morning after they did throat surgery for his cancer at the base of the tongue.
- Most generous person I know. In his early years, he once gave the last $20 bill in his pocket to somebody that showed up at church with a hard-luck story. “I figured I could make more and he might not be able to,” he said when the story came out years later.
- Knowledgeable in all things construction. Can’t tell you how many times he’s bailed me out on home maintenance. He is the superintendent on my screened-in porch project now.
Happy birthday, Pops, and many more. I love you more than words can express. We eating Mater's pizza tonight!
(Also of note: Dad will be the keynote speaker at the Guntersville Courthouse's Memorial Day ceremony Monday at 11:00.)
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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Re: A Great American Turns 72 Today
[Re: AC870]
#1747226
05/27/16 12:41 AM
05/27/16 12:41 AM
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Posts: 9,710
Cleburne
.308
14 point
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14 point
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Cleburne
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Sounds like a hell of a man. Thank him for us for his service.
"When you've stared down the barrel of a shotgun in your own home, 3rd & 20 don't seem too bad"......Ken "Snake" Stabler
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Re: A Great American Turns 72 Today
[Re: AC870]
#1747255
05/27/16 02:20 AM
05/27/16 02:20 AM
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Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 14,087
Chilton County
MarksOutdoors
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Booner
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Posts: 14,087
Chilton County
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They don't make them like that anymore. Happy Birthday to your Dad!
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
-G. K. Chesterton
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Re: A Great American Turns 72 Today
[Re: AC870]
#1747262
05/27/16 02:29 AM
05/27/16 02:29 AM
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Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 4,677
Heart of Dixie
Narrow Gap
10 point
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Heart of Dixie
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That's something to be Very Proud of in Your Dad! Happy Birthday to him and thanks for His service!
Duty, Honor, Country
Robert E. Lee
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Re: A Great American Turns 72 Today
[Re: AC870]
#1747349
05/27/16 04:39 AM
05/27/16 04:39 AM
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Posts: 15,621
Montgomery
bamaeyedoc
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Montgomery
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Happy birthday to your dad! My dad also has a birthday today. He's 78.
Dr. B
AKA: “Dr. B”
Aldeer #121
8-3-2000
Proud alum of AUM, UAB, and UA
Member of Team 10 Point
2023-2024 ALdeer Deer Contest Winners
Glennis Jerome "Jerry" Harris
1938-2017
UGA Class of 1960
BS/MS Forestry
LTJG, USNR
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Re: A Great American Turns 72 Today
[Re: .308]
#1747356
05/27/16 04:55 AM
05/27/16 04:55 AM
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Posts: 1,786
Collinsville, AL
Tambo252
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Sounds like a hell of a man. Thank him for us for his service. X2 Happy Birthday to your Dad!
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Re: A Great American Turns 72 Today
[Re: AC870]
#1747498
05/27/16 08:04 AM
05/27/16 08:04 AM
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Posts: 8,363
Montgomery
WmHunter
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Montgomery
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A great American, my dad Don Campbell, turns 72 today.
His achievements:
- War hero (sniper in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965, Purple Heart & Bronze Star)
- Author, he wrote his war memoirs in a book called “The Missing Horsemen"
- Married to the same woman, Sandra Dispennett Campbell, 50 years come October
- Champion pee-wee football coach
- First fire chief and among the founders of Ga. Mtn. Volunteer Fire Dept.
- Deacon and Sunday school officer for many years at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church
- Retired lineman from Redstone Arsenal
- Entrepreneur, started his own heating & cooling business years ago
- Cancer survivor and overall armor-plated son-of-a-gun. He ate bacon and eggs the morning after they did throat surgery for his cancer at the base of the tongue.
- Most generous person I know. In his early years, he once gave the last $20 bill in his pocket to somebody that showed up at church with a hard-luck story. “I figured I could make more and he might not be able to,” he said when the story came out years later.
- Knowledgeable in all things construction. Can’t tell you how many times he’s bailed me out on home maintenance. He is the superintendent on my screened-in porch project now.
Happy birthday, Pops, and many more. I love you more than words can express. We eating Mater's pizza tonight!
(Also of note: Dad will be the keynote speaker at the Guntersville Courthouse's Memorial Day ceremony Monday at 11:00.)  My Dad was in the Ia Drang Valley with your Dad. Don't know if they knew each other but they were there at same time with The Cav.
"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
" Chuck Sykes is a dictator control freak like Vladimir Putin " WmHunter
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Re: A Great American Turns 72 Today
[Re: AC870]
#1867940
10/06/16 11:40 AM
10/06/16 11:40 AM
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Eagle's Landing
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Eagle's Landing
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Thanks AC870 for getting the copy of your Dad's memoir to me. It was well worth it. It was a great read about a great American. I took the book to the Jacksonville Library today to add to their circulation. They were delighted to get the book & especially since Mr. Campbell had personalized the copy.
Thanks again.
"If money can fix it, you don't have a problem," Billy Latham
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Re: A Great American Turns 72 Today
[Re: AC870]
#1867967
10/06/16 11:57 AM
10/06/16 11:57 AM
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In a Van, down by the River
quailman
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Hope it's a great day. Sounds like he's earned it..
Life is a journey. Make sure and bring plenty of Beer.
My luck has been so bad lately, it could be raining pussies and I'd catch one with a dick broke off in it.
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