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Just about all the men in the family served. Some in conflict, some not, all came back, some not as they were. A great grandfather that fought in WW1 life came short in '59 from being mustard gassed. On the other side my grandfather fought in that same war, he got disemboweled by an Oldsmobile in '50. My other grandfather patched up sheet metal on airplanes aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific in WW2, lied about his age to get in. My father repaired Sikorsky's during the Korean conflict, he had an older brother in WW2 and the others all served as well, some cleaning up the mess in the pacific, some keeping rockets at the ready in the cold war, one carried the mail on a aircraft carrier. One brother is buried in Fort Smith Arkansas, his son went on to be a door gunner in Vietnam. There's a pile more uncles and cousins they all served. Even had a grandmother that pounded on a typewriter for the USN during WW2, met my grandpa at Navy Pier in Chicago. Good to be able to think of all them folks, even if for just once a year. Hope you all have fond memory's of someone who served and remember them well.