Who do YOU remember today?

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Thank you veterans for your service this Memorial Day.
Share if you'd like, but the question is more to stimulate your own thinking. The all-encompassing thank you is fine, but often there are particular people either in our lives or that we've seen stories about that we are particularly thinking about.

For me, hands down, I think of my father- an airplane mechanic in the Navy during WWII, who would be 104 right now. I can't believe he's been gone since 1995. How does a farm kid from South Dakota end up an airplane mechanic when he'd never even been ON a plane before joining the Navy? He was a farm kid, and especially back then if you lived on a farm you got to be good with your hands and creative with your repairs, so they used a LOT of farm kids as mechanics just for that reason.

This year in particular, however, I think of my cousin and his father. His father is my lone remaining uncle, who also served in the Navy in WWII, and turned 90 last fall. My cousin is a Viet Nam vet fighting cancer. He was never that big, but he's down to 113 lbs now. To his credit, he's still pushing to do many of the things he likes doing, like puttering in his workshop, riding his motorcycle.

Again, I'm looking to stimulate your thoughts more than generating responses here.

Enjoy the day!