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Otherwise, I might not even be here.
LOL! Some may honestly have mixed emotions about that.
I am grateful for your father's service
and his impact upon your life.
Me too Carl. My dad did very well, and made staff sergeant in one enlistment (early 50's). He had about two years at WVU but ran out of money and enlisted rather than be drafted, and for the GI bill. They tried very hard to get him to go to OCS Quantico and would help him finish undergrad, but he did not want a military career with a new family to raise. The big C took him 10 years ago, and I miss him.
