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My children's great grandfather served in WW1 he was an amazing man. The horrors of what he experienced affected him daily throughout his years. He lied about his age when he joined the military to defend this country. He would not speak very often about what he saw.Memorial Day. For me, the personification of the Day is in my father and uncles who served in WW2. From servicing C-47's doing the Hump out of India, to North Africa, Okinawa, a jeep carrier in the Pacific, to the 10th Mountain, they served in a war that is in many ways beyond the comprehension of those that have not served in active combat.
All but the Marine in Okinawa are gone now. The stories they kept to themselves, and never told us, are also gone. Some, we learned from some of the comrades after they died. Some, from going through effects. Medals for things never mentioned to us, their children. Not because they did not want share that part of their lives with us, but because for those with no experiance in what they had experianced, the words could not convey what had actually happened.
I see their faces, sometimes, when I think of them, and they are the faces of my uncles as they were as older men. What did they look like when they defended this nation as such young men, some not yet 20?
None of my family were life time military people, just citizen soldeirs that served in time of need. All saw their service as neccessary. And all who saw active combat hated war.
I think now of those men that I remember as old men, and wish I had known them in their youth, wish that I could more fully comprehend the sacrifices that they made for my generation.
Memorial Day. So much I know about those men, so much more that I shall never know. Ordinery men that did such extroidenary deeds.