Thanks PF ....

For me, my father was a medical man in the Korean conflict ... was still in medical school during WWII ... my step father served in the trenches in the Pacific theater during WWII ... and my uncle ... died during WWII ... he was a very young man, wife with 1 child and one on the way when he died as a pilot instructor in the early days of Miramar AF Base (don't know if it was called that then though). He had that assignment after he flew a "suicide" mission in the pacific theater to determine if the "enemy" was in a group of islands near where his group was stationed. He was awarded one of those high up medals for that act. He and my mother were very close and I know that even now, she still misses him. I was born many years after his death, so it is one of those losses that is an unknown. His children never knew him and I think that was always something sad to me.

Thanks again PF for the chance to remember!!!