Two years ago in DC I had the great fortune to meet several WWII survivors that were at the Memorial. They were members of a group taken free of charge by an organization called Honor Flight to DC to see the Memorial. I was wearing a Submarine Force tee shirt and they accepted me as one of them and I talked to several of them for some time. It would take days and days and page upon page to relate their stories. They are True American Heroes.
I served in Pearl Harbor in the late 50's and early 60's and as part of our training viewed many classified films from that day, it is unbelievable what happened on that day in 1942.
Back to the Guys in DC, when we parted company, they thanked me for my service during the Cold War. Men who had probably never related most of what they told me to anyone, men who saw and lived through horrible things, Thanked Me for serving. I hope someday to be proven to be half as good as those men.
Please support them in all the ways you can, they are America and what it stand for.