My Dad at age 17 joined the Navy and served in the North Atlantic (1944-45) on a destroyer escort. He once told me, he had been to several foreign ports, but they were not allowed off the ship. He survived some stuka attacks and their ship attack some submarines. He did not talk about the war much and never put in for the medals he had earned (I guess he just thought he was doing his duty).

Later his buddy talked him into joining the Marine Reserve to make a little extra money, shortly after he joined the Koren War began. He once told me he fought the battle of 301. You see he did not get shipped over, he did his service her in the states at Camp LeJune (sp?) and when he got leave drove home to Virginia and there were a lot of car accidents on Highway 301 and felt lucky he was not in one of them.

He past away in 1985, much to soon.

One day I hope to be half the man he was.