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Yay Us Day

My four years of Army service in the late 60s, including a year in Vietnam. My late father’s flying in World War II and his Air Force career thereafter, and Mr. Boy’s late maternal grandfather who flew in Vietnam and made a career of the Navy. My nephew’s current service as a Navy pilot. A Mississippi cousin-by-marriage who is currently in the Army. My late great uncle from Dallas whose Navy unit landed on Omaha Beach on the first day, and his nephew who was there on the second day with the Army. Another late great uncle from Mississippi who drove Army ammunition trucks in World War I, and a cousin who served in the Spanish-American war, although his unit never left its training camp in Houston. Before that there was family in the Confederacy, the Mexican War, the Texas Revolution and the American Revolution. Veterans all.

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