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Recently I said to a friend, that we are so lucky or fathers and grandfathers made it home from WW2 or we most likely would not be here. My grandfather got married before he volunteered for the Marines and his wife was pregnant when he left. When my grandfather got back nearly 2 years after his sons birth (my father) in 1944, his wife had ran off and abandoned my father. His grandmother(my great gram) and my grandfather raised him. He never did see his mother again.

My grandfather passed away in 95 and great gram in 99. I miss them a lot. The stories at my grandfathers services were incredible. His own brother and all his cousins all served in WW2 and were so happy about all the photos and such my grandfather had kept. All of them made it home which is incredible.

One of my favorite stories is how my great grandmother was so furious at her 2 sons for volunteering before the draft. She had raised her own 3 children alone as my great gramp had died in the early 20's. My gramp was oldest and enlisted first. My uncle snuck out and enlisted behind her back. She yelled about this event up until her death.