What an awesome young man. Thank you for posting this.
It is stories like this that make me understand my own father a little better. He was an ordinance officer in WWII. He took apart Japanese mines and unexploded grenades and ordinance. I never really understood until the last few years just what an amazing job my dad did. He had several empty grenades on our bookshelves when I was growing up. I just took them for granted and thought EVERYONE had some! LOL!
I started getting a clue about 20 years ago when he was in the hospital with his second or third heart attack. He was telling me about his headache. He said it was from the nitroglycerin. When he was working ordinance in the Marines in the Pacific, he would get the same headaches putting together and taking apart bombs.
WOW, good man your dad was.
Good folks in the military today too.
You've got great genes!
Please pass a thank you to your father from me & my 4 daughters!