My father turned 18 in 1937. Went on 5 north atlantic convoys up the coast of Canada his first hitch, on a ship made in 1909. Then was in the first wave of liberation of the Philipines, then Iwo Jima, where his LST was hit with a mortar round of all things, then Okanawa, then back to the PI to load for the invasion of Japan, ended up unloading telephone supplies on a beach outside Hiroshima, and they rode around in open deuce and halves thru the radioactive ash. There are 2 other LST sailors around here, still alive, were in the same place same time, different duty. He got out of the coast guard in '47. He couldn't care less anymore. He said there has been a dozen wars since, people should play more attention to the kids who will die in the next one. In the city of Springfield, Mass, a proper stone marker was just placed this weekend on the grave of a yankee sailor who received a medal of honor in 1864 for saving shipmates during a rebel naval attack. He lived to be an old man, the family never had money for a stone, and he was forgotten for 100 years. A kid up in the hilltowns of western Mass turned 18 in 2007, stepped on a mine in Afganistan 2 weeks ago. His funeral was yesterday, he will be buried in Idaho. 100 years from now, maybe someone will put a flower on his grave. Time travels on...
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