Anyone Else Have Relatives At Pearl Harbor 1941?

[Type3Toys]

My Pop-Pop was a Marine stationed at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th 1941. Had things gone different that day, I would never have been born. I survived that day and went on to fight many battles in the Pacific Theater as a Marine Raider, Guam, Quada Canel, Iwa Jima, all the islands in the chain that lead to Japan.
If you have a second, google marine raider and see what comes up, they were bad to the bone!
Anyway, I always think of him today. For all the horrors' that humanity can through at a person, he remained not only the toughest man I have ever known, but one of the kindest as well.

[wolfie]

Did you mean, HE survived that day?

[Mikey]

All of my relatives that fought in WW2 enlisted after the Dec 7th attack.

One of my uncles was in The Battle of Okinawa, another uncle fought in Europe (think he said Belgium among other places)

A third uncle, I think he fought in Africa (I think that's what he said)

[Cmonster]

Farley speaks... Love that.

SC

[The Bat]

My Dad joined the Navy right after Pearl Harbor. Well, he actually had to wait one year because he was 17...and his Father wouldn't sign the Papers to let him go.
My Friend Joe Foley's Father was at Pearl Harbor, and survived.

[Duncan]

My grandfather enlisted right after Dec 7, and spent WWII as a medic in the south Pacific. He met my grandmother working for the draft board when he enlisted. So...if not for Pearl Harbor, my mom & I wouldn't have been born.

[BlackKnight]

My GrandFather Faught and Kick Arse.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

No relatives, but much thought to what day it was.

[Adam West]

My father fought in Korea which really doesn't get much attention in the history books.

He was old enough to fight in WWII but was granted a deferment because he was a farmer. When Korea broke out, he was 24 and married but it didn't matter. He really didn't want to go (especially after seeing the horrors of WWII) but was drafted and went. He was placed in an Army Engineering Unit attached to the Airforce (the Airforce did not have support personnel then) and because he was mechanically inclined; his main job was fixing tanks, planes, trucks, patching bombed runways, etc. One would think it was a relatively safe job but he served on the main airbase in Seoul had snipers constantly shooting at him, battles for the airbase, even a mortar attack that blew up the barracks next to him. He refused to talk about his time in Korea but my mom told me he came home a changed person....would scream out while he was asleep and often roll off of the bed and under while he was completely asleep. He has been dead for 16+ years and I still miss him.