Thank you…
My old man, airborne, twice wounded, was one of those who got to come home.
His brothers as well
Three of his cousins were not so lucky.
....my late dad was in the Signal Corps stationed in the Pacific during WWII...never really spoke much about his experiences there....he caught some kind of “crud” (what he called it) there and years and years afterward, from time to time it would manifest itself as a rash or something on his arms and legs...could never get rid of it....he hated the idea that Americans were so fond of driving Toyotas, Nissans (formerly Datsuns), Hondas, Subarus, etc....”the Japs really won that war”...he would say....