Just a remembrance. Today is the 81st anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
My father, a WW II veteran, died at the age of 81. At the age of 17 he knew a war was coming, so he joined the Navy in 1940 so that he wouldn't be drafted by the Army. He eventually got into Naval flight training, but then the war soon ended and he was mustered out.
No doubt you also have close relatives who witnessed the war years in the military. Most are gone now. But of course our memories of them — and what they achieved — live on.