We attended the 235th Anniversary of the US Marine Corps. which was celebrated here with a formal ball at a very nice hotel. The event was wonderful and touching, and the man I was with, my HANDSOME HUBBY, was in rare dancing form, so we had a great time.
My mom found pictures of my father when he was overseas with the 2nd marine Division during World War II. My sweet friends, Larisa and Robert, downloaded and emailed those photos of my dad, along with his Marine records and an article about Nagasaki. I took these pictures and the article to show all of the young Marines, and they were very interested and proud that Richard and I attended in memory of my father. He served when he was 17, and joined the Marines because he wuld have been drafted into the Army at 18, and he wanted to one of "The Few, the Proud, the Marines!" He served at Nagasaki, Saipan and was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for Heroic Accomplishments in July 1944 at the Marianes Islands. He was 19 at the time.
He was a very good man, and I miss him.
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