My maternal grandfather was in the US Army, I don't know a whole lot about him or what he did. I know he fought on Cebu, and at one point was trapped behind enemy lines for a week. He brought back a Japanese rifle that still had the Chrysanthemum on it, which mom gave me. Unfortunately he died of lung cancer long before I was born, and my maternal grandma is long since dead as well. Mom will have to tell me what she knows one of these days.

My paternal grandfather was a signalman and a cook, and he served on two destroyers in the Pacific, I don't have the names of them handy. Grandma gave me a lot of his stuff, including his tags, ribbons, pictures, a few other things. I haven't gone back and traced the deployments of the two ships he was on, but the family is most certain that he saw some action, probably against kamikazes, but he never talked about it. He was pretty messed up thoughout his life, dad wasn't on good terms with him so I never knew him or grandma too well, he died back in 2004. Dad and a good family friend who was in Vietnam both think that a lot of his problems were because of his experiences during the war.