re: "As a spouse, you serve too" - USAA commercial

With the exception of one year, I got to live in Hawaii until I was 12. It was a great place to grow up, especially since we'd basically have the beaches on the Marine Base to ourselves. A few months ago, I was talking about how nice it was growing up in Hawaii and Dad laughed and said "yes, and I got to go to Vietnam three times."

I remember a couple of Marines I knew as a kid on base getting killed in Vietnam while my Dad was also out there.