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My grandfather was a woodworker and worked in construction. When I was ~18 I proudly showed him this fancy Japanese pull saw I had gotten for a woodworking pro

My grandfather was a woodworker and worked in construction. When I was ~18 I proudly showed him this fancy Japanese pull saw I had gotten for a woodworking project I was working on. His only comment was "We confiscated so many of those from the people we put in internment camps". Shit just got real. He was a Marine at Pearl Harbor during the attack, he never really talked about it. I wish I knew him better, but I was always afraid of him growing up. "We don't wake grandpa up when he's napping, he might accidentally kill us."

devoutsalsa 3y ago
On the topic of Pearl Harbor, my dad’s uncle was in the Massachusetts National Guard. He was scheduled to get out of the military on December 8th, 1941. He was on a ship from Hawaii to San Francisco when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7th. His ship was turned around, and he had to serve until the end of the war. He was in the infantry & was storming beaches, including some of the infamous ones like Guadalcanal. His Battalion suffered a 250% casualty rate (aka replacement troops also suffered casualties). By the end of the war, he and one other guy were the only original members left.