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I'm curious to know if any who visit here have/had a father brother or grandfather who served in WWII?
My father was with the Marine 1st Division on Okinawa .
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Sily,
Do you know which branch of the military you grandfather served with and where he was deployed? Do you recall him telling of his experience?
I probably am trying to piece some things together Polly but I hadn't thought of that way.It's a subject that always interested me probably because it was so horrific. I have a tendency to make myself look at the unpleasant.My own father never spoke of it much at all with anyone( he considered it too obscene to share) until the time he visited us in Texas and went with us to the beach.( He never took us to the beach as children) In the water his eyes began to tear up and he started telling my boys how they got off the boats on Okinawa .He was an artillery gunner. Gradually he spoke more of it but there is much that is unspeakable.