My dad, who is still alive, was an officer on Okinawa during WWII. He still has interesting recollections about the war there and the end of the war. They were

My dad, who is still alive, was an officer on Okinawa during WWII. He still has interesting recollections about the war there and the end of the war. They were all issued gas masks right after the the atom bomb was dropped because of the fear of escalation to chemical weapons. After hostilities ceased, he had an opportunity to fly over and see Hiroshima with a handful of other Marines. As I get older I realize that I don't remember everything he told me about that time very well anymore. A friend suggested that I hire someone to go visit with him every week and and help him record his still quite vivid memories: the great depression, growing up in the dust bowl, traveling around the country with hobos on trains before the war, WWII, the civil rights movement, and more.