We lost Uncle Gilbert on August 12. He was in the Navy, on a landing craft in the South Pacific, in the Phillipines and around Borneo, late in '44 and '45.
He died a year to the day after we buried my father, who was younger and spent his service time at Camp Fannon TX after the fighting had stopped.
I miss them both. I still have one uncle left, who spent his Army years in Alaska, post-war.
