re: Does anyone have a family member alive that served in WW2?

Hell, one of my grandfathers was in WWI.

The other one was drafted into WW2, but being around 40 years old and having 4 kids, including a son that was in the Navy, he was given a deferrment. But they told him he had to contribute to the war effort in some way, so he was made an air raid warden. He said that when the city would practice black outs, he would ride around and look for buildings whose lights could still be seen and get the people to put out or block out their lights.

It's hard to believe, but there is a family picture of my oldest uncle as an infant sitting on the lap of my great, great grandfather, who was a Confederate soldier who passed in the mid 1920s.