re: Relatives that served in World War 2

Dad was in Combat Engineers, served all over Europe.died a couple of years ago at 97. I would loved to have gotten him on an honor flight, but he was fairly fragile in later years (but not his mind, he was sharp till the end). He didn’t talk about it when we kids were growing up, but talked about it in his later life.

2 maternal uncles served. One little Cajun uncle had to eat 5# bananas the day he enlisted in order to make the weight minimum. The other ended up being a French translator . Both made it home.

Absolutely the greatest generation….and the majority of them were KIDS while they were saving the world!