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gunbunny said

My grandfather, a WWII vet who is also gone, used to say "No one here gets out alive."
He wasn't lying.

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Yup. Daddy was on DE742 in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. He was on it from commission to decommission. It won eight battle stars. That little tub saw a lot of action. He's been gone since 98.