Dear bre356,
I hope things go well for you. I just recently joined the forum.
I want to thank you for your service. Navy, WWII it seems.
My Grandfather was a PFC in an infantry unit in the mess in the Philippines.
My good friend at church (who past only a few years ago) was a USS Arizona survivor and was on a few different vessels after that, some Destroyers I think. I just searched and found an old interview with my friend James L. Forbis.
"He was at Pearl Harbor at the beginning of the hostilities that started World War II and he was aboard the U.S.S. Arizona, which was one of the ships that was on Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor, just off . . . or moored up against Ford Island. After the . . . the incident at ar-. . . at the Arizona he went to the U.S.S. Craven, a destroyer, and was at the battle of Midway. And then he went to the U.S.S. Calk, another destroyer, and later he went to the U.S.S. Dehaven and saw a lot of action at the invasion of Leyte and Okinawa and off Japan . . . the mainland of Japan, where he . . . his ship was involved with kamikaze attacks and so fort"
One of my dear friends at work is David Van Valkenburgh. He had a detailed schematic of the USS Arizona so I told him about my friend Jim. He then pointed out that his grandfather was the Captain.
My Grandfather passed when I was young, TB issues I think from the War. My Grandmother gave me this:
So, I truly thank you for your service. I hope you are out shooting again soon.