I try not to remember to much some times as it makes me sad, But- I know I had great great etc uncles and cousins in the reveloutionary war and the civil war. WW1 I don't know that much about but know there was one uncle there and he came back. Thank god, a great man, played lap steel guitar and never married. Just always lived close to his brothers family, WW2 was a different story. I think all my cousins were in, one P38 pilot that was shot down over Italy and the underground help get him out. His brother was a medic in Burma. Then there were my brothers. Johnny a radioman and gunner in a dive bomber off the USS Enterprise in the early days of the war in the south Pacific. 17 years old. Just cann't imagine when I look at the 17 yr. olds these days, Another brother on the USS Iowa a battle ship in the Atlantic and the South Pacific. My oldest brother Bill, my rock, electrician on the USS Attu. He didn't see quite as much action as the other two. He lived close by to us and was the one I could always ask for help and he wold be there. They all came back, but a couple messed up some because of the things that went on at that age. They have all passed now, but there isn't a day goes by that they aren't on my mind. A nephew in VietNam, lost his legs. Has had a rough life since then. My grandson is in the navy now and will be in for the 20 years, six more years to go. All the boys overseas now, I just can't imagine. Alot of them are so young, the problem between this war and WW2, is all the country was behind it, where now it is a different feeling. I think it has got better because they have had more on TV about the boys that have come back and have showed how they have been injured and all. What they are going through. Then we should never forget the wives that have to take care of those fellows that have the injurys. Life is so different from what they imagined it would be when they got married. Almost forgot a nephew that seved over in Iraq and also a niece that did two times in Afghanastan. Drove this big thing, and they were hit twice. But she survived, all that has to do something to your mind. Will be a hard life for alot of them. I think they need to put more on the TV about the ones that don't come back. You may hear so many were killed in something that day. But then there is the sorrow of them coming home. The familys that have to go through this. So sad. I don't think I will ever forget the movie they made of the Sullivan brothers that were all on the same ship and it was sunk in WW2. I don't think after that they let all serve on the same ship. Of course I was only 10 when the war started and it was really impressed in my mind. I remember the air raid drills. We went out and stood under a tree on the playground. Like if the school was hit that tree would save us. But we didn't have that here thank god for that. I hope I havn't bored any one on this day, some times I get going and don't know where to stop Louise in Ca.