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Some Food for Thought (Please Don't Thank Me for My Service)
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<blockquote data-quote="Fr_Tom" data-source="post: 408366" data-attributes="member: 3139"><p>My father served in the Navy in WWII and Korea. Most of Korea he was at the Pentagon. He delivered Marines in the Invasion of Guam and was there for Saipan too. There was almost nothing he had to say about his service, although he talked about the Pentagon a little. Before he died he gave me <u>New Guinea and the Marianas</u> By Admiral Morrison. He had heavily annotated the book with notes in the margin. This was a huge gift because it gave me some insight into his service.</p><p></p><p>A comment he made once about Viet Nam was that really for the veterans returning home, the poor reception they got may have been healthier in the long run for them as they struggled to come to terms with it all. He said that when you came back from WWII you got a parade. When you were having a hard time, it was one of those "What do you mean? You are a hero." things, and it was dismissed.</p><p></p><p>More than 40 years after Guam and Saipan, fireworks would make him break into a cold sweat, pace the floor and look for cover. Some of those experiences were dredged up pretty quickly in his mind.</p><p></p><p>Among the few things he did talk about was the body fungus he got in the Philippines. He had bought a bunch of pipe tobacco in port somewhere and lost it to mold. Once when he was on an unladen landing craft and he was on watch, a torpedo was fired at the ship and they had the alarms. He braced himself for the impact and likely death. Due to the shallow draft of the unladen ship, the torpedo went under the ship and missed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fr_Tom, post: 408366, member: 3139"] My father served in the Navy in WWII and Korea. Most of Korea he was at the Pentagon. He delivered Marines in the Invasion of Guam and was there for Saipan too. There was almost nothing he had to say about his service, although he talked about the Pentagon a little. Before he died he gave me [u]New Guinea and the Marianas[/u] By Admiral Morrison. He had heavily annotated the book with notes in the margin. This was a huge gift because it gave me some insight into his service. A comment he made once about Viet Nam was that really for the veterans returning home, the poor reception they got may have been healthier in the long run for them as they struggled to come to terms with it all. He said that when you came back from WWII you got a parade. When you were having a hard time, it was one of those "What do you mean? You are a hero." things, and it was dismissed. More than 40 years after Guam and Saipan, fireworks would make him break into a cold sweat, pace the floor and look for cover. Some of those experiences were dredged up pretty quickly in his mind. Among the few things he did talk about was the body fungus he got in the Philippines. He had bought a bunch of pipe tobacco in port somewhere and lost it to mold. Once when he was on an unladen landing craft and he was on watch, a torpedo was fired at the ship and they had the alarms. He braced himself for the impact and likely death. Due to the shallow draft of the unladen ship, the torpedo went under the ship and missed. [/QUOTE]
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