Not a lot of WWII vets around anymore.... Still see some of them on my (numerous) visits to the VA for appointments.... My Dad, like thousands of others, enlisted after the attack on Pearl.... trained as a Navy Medic in Philadelphia, Pa., after training did the remainder of his Navy time in the South Pacific on a couple different destroyers, and ended up on one of the carriers....forgive my lousy memory, don't remember the names of any of his ships.... Dad and I had a lot of great times drinking coffee and crusin' either to Minneapolis for a baseball game, Kansas City for a football game, Indy for the 500, or some lake somewhere for fishing. It wasn't very often he wanted to talk about "his war", but when he did, it was sure a very interesting conversation.... I miss him and so many others of his generation that I had the privilege to be friends with........