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My Dad (passed) retired as a Naval Aviator and I was telling him one time about when I was doing maintenance for apartment blocks where a retired Marine Lt. Col was manager back when the internet was established but still new to some and this semi-sweet hardheaded Lt. Col asked me to show him how to search and use the net with his computer and new internet connection. I hooked it up.

He didn’t want e-mail, wife was to take care of that, so got him linked and running on a browser/search page and turn to him and said, “You can look up anything you can think of now, what would you like to do as your first search ever?” There was only a slight pause and he said two words, “Iwo Jima.”

I typed it in and clicked on the first hit on top of the page which was, like most of the Iwo Jima sites, a remembrance or memorial started by a survivor and frequented by survivors. He seemed a bit taken back by a well done homepage with its American flags on either side of (if I recalled correctly) a short prayer. Maybe he was just surprised that he wasn’t only one recalling the past but he wanted to view the site later and I bookmarked it showing him how to get back to the site and he thanked me.

My Dad understood all to well.