My kid brother Eugene, wounded in action at Song Ong Doc, Republic of Vietnam. At age 55 life, drugs,booze caught up with him and he took his life. He left a wife and son.
My Uncle was in the Korean War....He had shrapnel in his chest.. He was in a Hospital for many weeks...He died at 60 years old of Cancer...When he came home from the war he brought 2 Korean pajamas for me and my cousin...I have the pajamas wrapped neatly in a soft cloth....My Dad was blind in one eye...He joined the National Guard and was a sharp shooter, but they didn't take him in the war....He became a
Staff Sargent....He only went to the 8th grade....But he worked all of his life till he retired at 65 yrs old....Then got cancer....I miss him every day....
My dad was a Hospital Corpsman on a LST in the Pacific in WWII. Once he had to perform an appendectomy while instructions were radioed to him from a doctor on another ship. He died in 1992; I miss him dearly.