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A slice of Our Greatest Generation... The woman is my grandmother, Frances Scott (deceased 1962) who had to raise 2 boys as a single mom during the depths of the Great Depression. At one time, they had to seek shelter via a room in the county jail. Then she had to send her sons to war.
My dad (deceased 2001), shown on the left, enlisted in the US Army's 17th Airborne Division and served in England, Belgium and Germany during WWII. Transfered in 1947 to the USAF, he went on to serve many CONUS stations, Korea and Vietnam.
His older brother (deceased 2009) on the right, had enlisted in the US Marine Corps and served for 30 years, most notably with the Marine 1st Brigade, 2nd Marine Division and saw action in Guadacanal, Saipan, Okinawa and later, also Korea and Vietnam.
Both my wife and I served in peacetime and are immensely proud of the sacrifices those who served before us made.