[ansel12]

I just cleared up something about my stepfather during the last hour while I was looking at his obituary and burial information.

My step dad had mentioned being in the Navy and the Marines and since we never got into any details I wondered if he had been a Navy medic who served with the Marines and just rounded it off as Navy and Marines to save explaining things.
What I learned this morning is that he was Navy for WWII as a young guy and then joined the Marines for Korea, a little like actor James Garner who was a young Merchant Marine at the tail end of WWII and then Army in Korea.

[Chainmail]

A cool guy - didn't you get anything from about his experiences in the service(s)? If he didn't tell anybody or at least write some of his stories, that piece of history is lost.

Both of my grandfathers served in WWI and my dad and both uncles were in one WWII and one of those uncles was a fighter pilot who flew the Very Long Range missions in a P-51 from Iwo Jima to Japan and back. At least that uncle told me some of his stories, but he never wrote anything down for posterity.

Everyone's histories are unique and they are lost forever unless we write them while we can.