re: #21 Barbarian at the Gate

I read somewhere once that everyday 400 American World War II vets pass on. Soon it will be as rare to see a WWII vet as it was in the 1930’s -50’s to see a Civil War veteran. I think there is one World War I vet still alive in Britain.

My dad was Navy - South Pacific, came back from there deaf. He only spoke of his service once, very late in his life, and briefly at that. He was using one of those scopes to help figure out the distance his destroyer’s big guns had to shoot while they were providing support for a Marine landing somewhere. He said, “I saw those Marines there trying to get ashore, and arms and legs flying all over the place.”
Talk about sacrifice…