Yeah, we plan to get up there when we can. I just always thought of him as “all that way far away in Iowa” and when I moved here, forgot that it was only 2 1/2 hours away.
He is amazingly active and independent so hopefully he will be around long enough to see his great-great-grandkids. He was in the Army in the Pacific during WW2 but I don’t think he saw too much fighting. That’s the only time he’s been out of Iowa since he moved here from Missouri in the 20s.
I’m no expert, but I don’t think most of the guys in the Pacific were in offices. It may be that he doeasn’t want to talk about it, but he certainly saw a lot of interesting things.