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Yes, those who died young and unmarried seem to sort of evaporate. But they gave all. My father was in the Navy and at Iwo Jima and Leyte Gulf, he survived. His first cousin was killed at Anzio beach in '44, we never knew him, nor anything about him.

Getting a package ready now for relative in Iraq.

Yes, those who died young and unmarried seem to sort of evaporate.
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They sacrificed their future for our future. Perhaps unfortunately we cannot remember their personalities, but we can remember that sacrifice.

I was fifteen years old and in school assembly when we listened very respectfully to President Roosevelt very forcefully ask the Congress of the United States to declare "that a state of war has existed between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan" from that moment Dec.7th 1941!

I waited until I was seventeen got my Daddy to sign a release so I could join the Navy on Sept.7th 1943.Boarded a train(my first train ride)wound up in San Diego Cal. U.S.N.T.S.

I was born Aug.21,1926 and since no extra gasoline was available had to wait for the Navy recruiter to come to our little town to offer me opportunity to sign up.

I did try to join when I turned sixteen by writing a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox(as an English class project)but was courteously rejected after his letter thanked me for my patriotism.

That made me feel real good!