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1. A beautiful memory of your father. Our fathers were members of the Greatest Generation
Mon May 25, 2026, 12:22 AM
12 hrs ago

My father was a Marine in the Pacific Theater, as I remember it called. I don’t know where in the Pacific but when he joined, he lied about his age to get in and was injured in his foot but stayed where he was at the time. He didn’t talk much about his experience to me but I think he did to his sons. He had problems from his injury his whole life but still walked tall and never complained . He was a career military man and after retiring from the Marines, he joined the Air Force and that took him all over the world. They don’t make them like our fathers who answered the call to allow us to have what we got to benefit from. Thank you for sharing your beautiful tribute to your father..got me thinking about my father even more tonight 💐

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