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My father was in the Navy during WWII and on a battleship in the Philippines. He never talked much about it. My mother was a Wave and telegraph operator off Hyannis. She never talked about it either.

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My dad was in WWII. He was too nearsighted for combat, but his experience with what the "glorious battles" left behind prompted him to become a priest.

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Was your father in World War II? He might have been peeling potatoes my grandfather grew on his parents' farm!

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