[TunaHead]

In the early 90's I was working in an ICU. I had taken a WW II history class in school and realized that a lot of the older guy's I was taking care of were WW II vets. I made a habit to talk to them about that time in their lives and the stories they told were incredible!

I met one guy who flew a Grumman F4F Wildcat in the battle of Midway. Another told me of being on Iwo Jima as part of a covert reconassaince team before the invasion. They had been on the island just a couple of day when the US bombardment began. They ended up hunkering down in a cave scared to death for days.

I remember another guy with a left forearm that was angulated from a poorly healed fracture. He had a WW II era tattoo on the arm and I asked him about the fracture. He said, "That was the luckiest break I ever got". Apparently he fell and broke his arm the day before the d-day invasion. His unit went ashore of one of the beaches that suffered very heavy casualties.

Those guys are gone now but I won't forget them.