My dad died on Memorial Day a few years ago.

[bif]

Fitting since he was a proud WWII vet. He served in the Pacific near the end of the war and he was in one of the B-29 bombers that flew over the aircraft carrier while Hirohito signed the peace treaty. He had some great stories about his days stationed on Guam.

Miss you dad!

[Irish_Dem]

1. That is so neat he was there when the peace treaty was signed.

A truly historic and happy moment.

Yes he left the planet on a day that meant something to him.
Good for him.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. What a great story. TY for sharing, bif.

[MineralMan]

3. My Dad died in 2021, on January 6, oddly enough.

He was a B-17 pilot, based in Italy and North Africa near the end of the war. He made a point every year about Memorial Day being for people who had died while serving in a war. He did not, and would not accept being lauded on that day. He lost too many of his friends while he was there.

We all miss our aged or departed relatives who served during WWII. Few remain. My thoughts today, though, go to those who did not return home to their families and friends. They are who we should remember and honor today.

[MiHale]

4. What a place to be...awesome to be part of that...

My uncle didn’t die in WW2 but because of it. He was an Army photographer and the things he was forced to witness and document left him a very shaken man. Back the they called it shell shock, we know it as PTSD.
There was no good treatment…he turned to alcohol…drank himself to death. I grieve him in such a different way.

Lost classmates and fellow soldiers in Vietnam.