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MineralMan

(149,158 posts)
2. I'm sorry about your loss. Truly.
Mon May 26, 2025, 11:29 AM
May 26

I served in the USAF from 1965-9. No fighting. No action. Just doing what the USAF thought I should be doing during that time. My father was a B-17 pilot in WWII. My wife's father served in WWII and the Korean War as a hospital worker.

All those white headstones always give me pause. So carefully aligned in tightly ordered rows that can be seen from any angle you look. All of those people who gave their time or even their lives to serve their country. It should give anyone pause. I think that is the point of our National Cemeteries.

I will think of you and your husband on that date, which will be my 80th birthday.

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