USS Shaw explodes in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th 1941
The day that will live in infamy. Thank you to all of the veterans that have served and especially those that died over the last 237 years to make this the greatest Country on the face of the earth.
Those that served;
Robert A. Fowler USN 1941-1945
Johnnie W. Fowler USN 1941-1945
Ralph Weeks USMC 1942-1945
Robert A Fowler Jr. USMC 1973-1977
Mathew B. Strunk USMC 2005-2009
Brian A. Lundy USMC 2011-present
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That war was a defining event for we baby boomers. I'm 57 years old, and, like Stephen Ambrose, every uncle I ever had, and my dad, wore a US military uniform, except one, who apparently spent so much time in the CCC and then married that the draft board said, "Don't bother, we won't take you." I even had cousins who wore the field gray unform of our enemy. My relatives were all lucky, except for Bodo, who was captured by the Soviets and returned in 1952 to die at home of kidney failure from complications due to maltreatment as a POW. My Dad's uncle was a career Navy CPO and managed to not go down with the ship when the Savannah was struck by the Fritz-X bomb in Naples Harbor.
That was the "Greatest Generation", almost as brave as the Civil War generation that marched into the wall of bullets, knowing they would die, and doing it anyway, to, as the song went, "let us die to make men free."
My generation was raised by that one, and they did a piss-poor job.
Sadly, rather than learning the moral necessity of fighting evil, we seem to have learned that fighting is evil, regardless of how evil the thing is we refuse to confront.
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