Hello!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by snakeyez

Everything I know about my Papaw's WW2 service is found in the video I posted on YouTube.com. That's the saddest thing, as he was like a father to me and lived only a few minutes away as long as he was alive. I was 19 when he passed away, and I'm 30 right now. Dumb teenager is the only excuse I have.

I know that feeling. I had six uncles. Four of them fought in the war, and two of them were at Pearl Harbor. I never bothered to ask any of them about their experiences, and they're all gone now. My dad was just barely too young to fight, and he just turned eighty.