[IceGrog]

My dad was in the USN in ww2, on destroyer escorts fighting the Japanese, but he didn’t talk much about it when I was growing Most of the stories I head from him were the ones I overhead when him and buddies got together. I remember that right after Pearl Harbor his ship spent many weeks chasing phantom Japanese subs around the islands there. And his ship one time picked up some sailors that had suffered at the hands of the Japanese. But I remember him saying that bravest thing he did was crossing the ocean in a destroyer escort, as small as it is.
I just remember as a kid he would take my brother and I to fish off the beach, we would be there until the wee hours of morning. He didn’t catch a whole lot but he would just sit there drinking his beer and looking out over the surf. Hummmm wonder what he was thinking of?
Sorry a little bit of rattling on.