Stop Whining

67Dart273 said

WOW Your Dad was only 4 years younger than my Gramps. Interesting, he was not called up either WWI or WWII. I'm amazed he went to Korea. My Dad was in WWII but not Korea

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Pa joined the USMC as a young man in the early 30s, he loved mechanics but there was NO money in rural SW Ga. He got into the avaiation part of it all. He went to a few, I guess they were skirmishes, seems like he said in Dominion Republic or such. Then came WW11. He left Pearl a few days before it was bombed to drive from Ca to Ga to marry my mother. I was born in Hawaii after the war in '48. He retired from the service after Korea and as they were bout to send him back again. He left the Marines mentally frazzled, and never fully recovered from it all.
He spoke of the War only a few times. I have some pics of him on some S Pacific islands around bombers and some in Korea. . He was in Japan for a while after the War. He never could set foot back on a plane after leaving the service. Pa was a quite man, you never would have known him to have been in the service. My mother you might have thought she was a general in the Army! The topic on post #1 was whinning? There was no whinning back then for me. Ma would have knocked me chitless!!! then said suck it up! Pa loved agriculture but lost his love for anything mechanics really. He passed at age 78. I miss him.