Navy moves to recognize heroic Black WWII sailor who swam for hours with sharks to save 15 men

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17. have you noticed?

It seems like his generation, and my fathers and father in laws' didn't feel the need to carry guns while they lived their lives?

I know some of them continued to hunt after coming back from the war but they didn't want to carry their M-1s or their Garrand rifles.

It was almost like they'd seen enough bloodshed to last a lifetime but maybe I just don't know them. What I do know is that my father was a radio operator on a PBY in the south Pacific during WW2 and he slipped once while we were having beers on his patio and said,
"And we came out of the clouds and all we could see was blood and bodies" He stopped talking then, never brought it up to anyone as far as I know.

FFS, he was 19 years old Mr French could not have been much older if at all. That would affect anyone.