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My Father

This is my favorite photograph of my father in his uniform. This picture hung at my parents house when I was growing up. My father was born on April 6, 1924 in Toledo Ohio. He was shot down five days before his 20th birthday, and spent it in a German occupied hospital.

One of the reasons I enlisted in the Marine Corps. was to become a flight crew member, like father like son. I had several military specialties, one of which was a crew chief on CH 46 Helicopters. This picture of my father had a lot to do with that goal.

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