My father, born in 1917, joined the navy in 1942. He served in the Pacific on USS Swallow (AM-65) then the USS Oglala (ARG-1). Discharged in 1945 as a MS2c. He died in 2000. I still miss him. I always will.
"...why, land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for,... because it is the only thing that lasts."
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