[USMCWife6869]

Thank you for sharing. My grandfather (who raised me) was a Navy WWII vet also. I remeber being absolutely enraptured by his stories, even as a young child. I tease my dh all the time by saying my grandfather would have loved him if he weren't a Jarhead.

Thanks again for sharing your father's precious memories.

[VOYAGER]

Thank you for sharing. My grandfather (who raised me) was a Navy WWII vet also. I remember being absolutely enraptured by his stories, even as a young child.

You know the further down the road it gets age wise by the WW2 service people(male and female)I find the less the folks who were not born yet(The Depression era and the following WW2 era)give a "pinch of dirt" for our growing up and service related experiences.

I'm about "Heroed" out anyway and appreciate without measure our wonderful, brave, unselfish and many times under-appreciated service people who are serving without measure in spite of the oft-times ungrateful and un-American attitude of the "elitist" news media and the U.S. Congress!!

To whom I say "Wake up you dumb butts" before these service folk that have "our backs" now are no longer willing to serve to the death and are no longer with us!

I feel very strongly that these that now serve are the "Greater Generation"!