A war. A Father and a son. Some guy in the grocery store

[MADem]

27. Well, the drawdown is underway. A lot of those

folks will be looking for work in the next few years.

You should try to get your father's service documents--there was a massive fire in St. Louis where they held the records, but they did try to reconstruct some of them. Although wait--that fire took out mostly Army records, so your dad's stuff might still be available.

I think it's important for people to know what their ancestors did. It would be a valuable bit of knowledge to pass on to the next generation.

I have an uncle who got a silver star in WW1, another who got the bronze star in WW2. We found out they had received these awards when they lay in their coffins with their medals on their chest.

People didn't brag back in the day. The WW2 uncle used to joke about his shrapnel, but the truth of the matter was it took him almost two years to get out of hospital after the war and it was a miracle he survived and lived to nearly 90.