SaintDawg
06-12-2018, 09:11 PM
Just wanted to share this with you all.... story to follow.
https://www.elitedawgs.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3036&stc=1
I wish I could make the photo larger for detail. But the true story behind what this is, is this: My grandfather was an Army officer in WWII. He served under General MacArthur in the intelligence community. He was there during the Philippines Campaign in 1944-1945. He was there surveying damage and gathering intelligence, etc. A Japanese command post had been either bombed or been a target of artillery, I'm not sure. Where in the Philippines this was I'm not sure of either. I think in Leyte. In one of the buildings that had been destroyed was the office of a Japanese general. He had a large 6-leg table in his office that had been destroyed. The one leg of the table that was still completely intact was the one pictured. My grandfather asked a Filipino Lt. to cut the leg off the table and bring it to him. My grandfather knew exactly why he wanted it. All 6 legs of the table had been carved in the same fashion of the same dog but were heavily damaged. Some time later, the Lt. showed up back to my grandfather, handed him the leg of the table and said in Tagalog "buldog". It's carved from solid mahogany, as was made the entire table. My grandfather attended State from 1936-1938 and then moved on to and graduated from Millsaps College in 1940. He kept it until his death in 2009, gave it to my Dad, and my Dad just gave it to me this past weekend. The passion and history of this school runs so deep. I'm proud to have it and wanted to share it with y'all. Hail State.
-Fixed the image to make it larger. Hail State. Love the story - Scooba
https://www.elitedawgs.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3036&stc=1
I wish I could make the photo larger for detail. But the true story behind what this is, is this: My grandfather was an Army officer in WWII. He served under General MacArthur in the intelligence community. He was there during the Philippines Campaign in 1944-1945. He was there surveying damage and gathering intelligence, etc. A Japanese command post had been either bombed or been a target of artillery, I'm not sure. Where in the Philippines this was I'm not sure of either. I think in Leyte. In one of the buildings that had been destroyed was the office of a Japanese general. He had a large 6-leg table in his office that had been destroyed. The one leg of the table that was still completely intact was the one pictured. My grandfather asked a Filipino Lt. to cut the leg off the table and bring it to him. My grandfather knew exactly why he wanted it. All 6 legs of the table had been carved in the same fashion of the same dog but were heavily damaged. Some time later, the Lt. showed up back to my grandfather, handed him the leg of the table and said in Tagalog "buldog". It's carved from solid mahogany, as was made the entire table. My grandfather attended State from 1936-1938 and then moved on to and graduated from Millsaps College in 1940. He kept it until his death in 2009, gave it to my Dad, and my Dad just gave it to me this past weekend. The passion and history of this school runs so deep. I'm proud to have it and wanted to share it with y'all. Hail State.
-Fixed the image to make it larger. Hail State. Love the story - Scooba