For those who may be wondering, these are some (but by no means all) of the medals and insignia earned by my father, who served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. I placed them on his uniform for the photograph. He passed last year at the age of 97.
Like many of his generation, he seldom spoke of his experiences (even though some of them, I later learned, were pretty harrowing) and always simply said that he did what every other man and woman of his generation needed to do for the country and our way of life.
It wasn't until his mid-90s that I could get him to open up and tell me the story of his and my mother's life. I found it fascinating and sometimes down right funny despite the circumstances.
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