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In reply to the discussion: Check in if your dad was in The Big One! [View all]Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)My GGG and GG grandfathers were father and son who enlisted in the Fourth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the winter of 1861/62. The father was invalided out at Vicksburg in 1863. The son served til the end of the war.
My great-uncle was an artilleryman in France during WWI, and lived his whole life with the effects of a mustard gas shelling on his battery; my wife's grandfather was a religious conscientious objector during WWI, but was drafted as a male nurse in the 88th Division, and was sent to the trenches in France.
My wife's uncle was a co-pilot on a B-17 in the 8th air force; his plane was shot up on a mission over Germany. They made it back, but he was missing a softball-sized chunk out of his leg which left him with a major limp.
My dad served in Korea during the war.
Three of my uncles served; two in the army, and one in the Marines. The Marine was a grunt in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet offensive.
And I served in an armored cavalry regiment on the Czech-West German border in 74-75.