re: What’s the small things that remind you of your grandparents

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Japanese people, Grandpa killed a lot of them

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My paternal grandfather was a cook on Tinian. Enola Gay crew had his breakfast in their bellies that morning.

He hated them until the day he died. His preacher's son married a Japanese girl and pappaw told him not to be bringing his "Jap wife" around, LOL.

I've got a broken off M1917 bayonet on my dresser that pappaw kept under his pillow at all times, even for several years after the war, because he was afraid some Japanese soldier would try to slit his throat in the night.

Funny, my other grandfather was in Europe, went ashore on D-Day+4, was in the Battle of the Bulge, buzzed the Seine River through Paris in a P-47 (he was a crew chief...the pilot took out the radio equipment so he could ride), but never hated the Germans, at least not the soldiers.