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[QUOTE="Chin Diesel, post: 2733016, member: 34"]
My grandfather served in the Army in WWII.  Couldn't speak a lick of any language other than English and Italian.  Up thorugh the 1970's and 1980's he'd have nightmares yelling out loud in German.  We let that dog lie where it was.  As a kid I'd be mixing drinks at the bar of one of my Great Uncle's house.  I could barely see over the counter top, but I'd mix the drinks and gets some coins for tips.  I liked that better than opening Christmas gifts or any of the food during holidays. They'd trade some stories between the Army, Navy and Army Air Corps.  No Marines in my family.  My dad and his generation mostly got lucky being able to serve between Korea and Vietnam.  I don't think there's any Vietnam vets in my family.

Had a great uncle who served on a battleship, USS South Dakota in the Pacific.  When he died my mom, his goddaughter gave me a few boxes of his stuff.  Uniforms, awards, newspaper clippings, etc.  Anything that was personal I kept; donated a bunch to the USS Alabama museum in Mobile, Alabama which was a sister ship of the South Dakota.  There is no USS South Dakota ship.  I was melted down.
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