My father was a SeaBee in WWII in the Pacific. He was an aerial photographer who took pics of island invasions while they were taking place. After the war he went into government service, eventually rising to head of the visual department of the U.S. State Department. He took pics of many visiting dignitaries, treaty signings, etc. I have some sweet pics of the Bikini atoll H- bomb tests(picture a cruiser getting swept UP into the stem of the mushroom cloud), as well as signed pics of JFK and Jackie, as well as Hull and a few others. The best souvenir though is one of the original seven copies of the Declaration of War with Japan, that rests on my mother's living room wall.
A few years after his passing I was watching the History channel and got a glimpse of him in an old newsreel when the shot panned accross the press gallery at National Airport during a visit by a foreign head of state. There he was in the front row.
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