Veterans Day

[Dave Taylor]

My grandfather was a WWII and Korean War veteran. He passed away on July 4th of last year at the age of 95. In 2008, while he was living at his senior living community, which my father visited everyday, he took part in a project a photographer was doing to document the faces and stories of WWII veterans living in the community. My grandfather was a fairly reserved man and while he would talk to me about his war time experiences (often with tears in his eyes) he provided only a short blurb to the man who photographed him for the project.

Despite the harrowing experiences he had endured as a Marine in the South Pacific he summed it all up in two sentences:

"I went in a private and came out a Captain. I'm glad I came out alive."



Thank you to all our veterans, past, present, and future.