both my parents were in WW2, my mom was a nurse stateside and my dad was in the Pacific with the Navy....long gone, safely in heaven away from this crazy world...

I have lots of relatives who served....

but my dear oldest brother died yesteday, on Marine Corp day, from parkinsons related aspiration pneumonia which ravaged his body.....he was a young Marine in Nam and was greatly affected by agent orange.....grew into a fine,upstanding and successful man with a good family and he died much too young....

thankyou to all you vets, including my hubby is out hunting right now......somebody had to step up and you did....

someday, somehow, we will stop sending our young people out to these wars, many that were the "rich man's trick".....