[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.

[MtnClimber]

My uncle was married to my father’s sister who was just older by a year. My uncle passed away a few years ago and no one else knew much more about Pearl Harbor or anything after that. He just did not want to remember or talk about it.

[MtnClimber]

I also worked with someone, when I was just out of college, who was in the first wave to invade Iwo Jima. He was one of few to make it out from that first wave. He had a partner in a fox hole that went out at night to go to the bathroom. He was hit in the head by a stray bullet. That must have been real hell.