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Message: [QUOTE="Txhoopsalot, post: 3177845, member: 5143"] What a beautiful thread. I am sorry I did not open this thread until late last night having checked up on all the transfer threads throughout the day. My father served with the army during the retaking of the Pacific at the end of WWII and stateside during the Korean War. This thread brings up so much for me relating to my memories of my father, all of which are consistent with the themes in this thread: duty, faithfulness, humility. Faithfulness was the theme of my father's eulogy delivered by my theologian nephew having spent some time talking with my father about what he wanted in the month before his death. This was what concerned my father all his life and in his last months. He strived to be a faithful in all he undertook, most particularly in relation to his family: as a son, brother, husband, and father. He hoped he had succeeded -- that he had been good enough. (Yes.) As with other men, my father spoke rarely of the war for over 60 years. There was the shocking outburst once at the dinner table when my father announced that if General so and so had been in charge such and such would not have happened. (In a family with four daughters and no sons, my father did not speak much at the dinner table at all.) My mother said that when he came home from Korea, he removed all signs of the war (old uniforms, pictures and such) and entered fully into civilian life as though he had never served. Towards the end of his life, Dad opened up a bit and the importance of that short period of his life became apparent. Both of my father's army units are on his headstone but WWII was the one important to my Dad. [/QUOTE]

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