I have a very faint early childhood memory of seeing the bullet holes at Schofield Barracks, and asking my dad why they hadn’t patched them.
Master Sergeant, USMC, WWII, Korea, Vietnam.
He didn’t talk much about it either.
Now at Riverside.
We were privileged to know them.
Having just turned 80 in mid October of this year, I have sketchy memories of my folks listing to radio broadcasts about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. (I was 4 years old when that happened). Strange how, as we age we remember things or events like that but have difficulty recalling what happened two days ago.
Back around 1980 or so I visited Hickam Field on TDY (Air Force). The guys stationed there told me to walk around a bit and you could still see damage on the buildings from the attack (I think at the time one of the buildings was the 9th Air Force’s HQ(?). It was rather eerie seeing the bullet holes and shrapnel scars along the walls between the windows. Numerous buildings were thus scarred.
Never forget.