Pearl Harbor Day today 7 DEC 41

[lemaymiami]

My Dad volunteered for the draft within six months of Pearl... He went on to make a career of the Army after getting a chance at OCS -retiring out after 28 years in Corps of Engineers in 1970 or 71... By the time I was 12 I'd lived in five different countries - and everything I am stems from that upbringing (He also did two tours in Vietnam towards the end of his career - I did one shortened tour in 1971...). That war, starting with Pearl had vast consequences for the world we inherited. I'll be 70 next year and I still miss my Dad...

What may not be understood about the "greatest generation" - was that they simply had no choice but to hit the ground running since the welfare world we know today didn't exist back then and it was get going -or starve...