Memorial Day: Thoughts and Honor

My dad served his country in World War II.   When he was a young man, he went to sign up for the Marines, but his fiance, fearful of stories of "canon fodder" said she would not marry him if he did, so he chose the Navy instead.He was in the South Pacific until the time where the bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with the declaration of war against Japan by Russia, ended the war.  It was