Thanks for sharing, Elsie. My stepdad was stationed on an atoll in the Pacific. His stories were fascinating. His opinion about the bomb was the same. We had no choice, and at least they were warned. When I was young (and they had the draft) most young men who had no clearcut plans for their future, went into the military and found school, job training, direction, discipline. Now they live at home, don't work, and don't do anything else. In my opinion, the draft was not all bad. Pat Las Vegas Elsie Davis wrote: > Pat, > I remember Sad Sack. I was 9 when the war started for us in 1941. > Now who's dating herself. <g> > We have a whole shelf full of them, all in paperback of course. My > husband was in the Philippines during WW2. He is a bit older than I > am. > He wasn't allowed to attend his own HS graduation. They drafted him > right in HS, allowed him to finish the year, but he couldn't stay for > the > ceremony. Those were rough times I think. > Our boys loved to read those books. They did ask him about the > Atomic > Bomb and how he felt about it. He said, if they hadn't dropped that > bomb > when they did, he wouldn't be here today. > This is a long time of memories being brought back now days. One > of my > students in my Sunday School class and his wife went back to a 60 yr. > reunion of the sub that he served on during the war. I didn't know > much about > them myself. Only what I saw in movies, etc. To know someone who > actually > was serving on one is quite a thrill. > Oh how precious are our memories. > Love ya, > Elsie >