[higgmeister]

My Dad would have been 87 on May 30th the traditional Memorial Day. He was always proud of that. As a M/M 2nd class USN he was on the shakedown cruise of the original USS Tarawa, CV-40 (Essex-class).

[aruanan]

My Dad would have been 87 on May 30th the traditional Memorial Day. He was always proud of that. As a M/M 2nd class USN he was on the shakedown cruise of the original USS Tarawa, CV-40 (Essex-class).

My dad was 88 last year. He served as a radio man in Mindanao in the Philippines in the Coast Guard during WWII. He would probably have been sick to death if he had made it this far into Obama's presidency.