[MtnClimber]

One of my uncles was on a ship in Pearl Harbor that was hit by a bomb in the Japanese attack. He earned a medal from repeatedly going back onboard to bring out injured sailors. It was hard to get him to talk much about it.

[pfflier]

My dad opened up when I joined the USAF. By coincidence, we had been assigned to some of the same bases years apart, Chanute AFB for tech school, Malmstrom AFB (for him Great Falls AAFB) and the Aleutians (I was assigned to Shemya).

He told me things he didn't even tell my mother.