re: If you had to fight in WW2- Europe or Pacific

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My grandfather was on Iwo Jima as a Navy Corpsman.

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So was my grandfather. I am sure they chewed some of the same dirt. I never really knew him. I only met him a couple of times. He was at the VA in Montgomery, AL after the war where he met my grandmother who was a nurse at the VA. Although he came home alive and in one piece I was told the war broke him down and their marriage didn't last long enough for them to have 2 kids in the span of about 4 years before they divorced.. He was a huge alcoholic and after he died we were told he had severe PTSD, although back then, that wasn't a thing.

I know my grandmother was kind of coaxed into that relationship by my great uncle (her brother) who was in the Marines, who also served on Iwo, but not with him directly. When they first started dating, they became best buddies obviously and he kind of helped foster it along because my mom said my grandfather was borderline abusive and was told she needed to let that go.