PT7 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 8:04 am
Coop, thanks for sharing about your uncle. To have survived any combat in any location during WWII had special meaning for the soldier and family members.
First time I've ever heard of a Marine who said "don't join the Marines." I'd guess (maybe hope?) it wasn't putting down this branch of our Armed Forces per se, but an indictment of the waste of combat based on what he went through at Iwo Jima. He may never had talked about that terrible experience, but his few words speak volumes.PT7
I think Bill went through hell and didn't want me to experience that. I still had three cousins who joined the Marines and went to Vietnam. We all came back.
My Grandfather was a Rough Rider in the Spanish American War. He came back and raised fifteen children. Nine boys, six girls.
Of the nine boys seven were in WWII, and all the girls married veterans. One brother was too old, and one too young. Of the rest, one Marine, one Air Force, and the rest Army.
My Father was above draft age, but enlisted. He was in the 3rd Army and wounded in the Battle of the Bulge.
The youngest brother served in Korea.
