smacky and bucky

My grandfather (pictured left) was an MP in the Fifth Army Air Corps (before the Air Force existed, it was a branch of the Army) in the Pacific in World War II. Back then you were in "for the duration," so he was there for over two years (1943-1945), never making it home for a visit to his wife and soon-to-be-born daughter (my mother). My mom was over one before she ever met her dad.

Laura brought a scanner along and scanned a lot of photos and documents at my grandparents' house. There's one of him standing by a downed Japanese plane on Wake Island. Here's a pic of the motorcycles the MPs rode on the islands:







The visitation is this afternoon, the funeral is tomorrow, and (since the gravediggers don't work on holidays) the interment will be Tuesday.

Oh, today is also my and Laura's fifth anniversary. Five years ago we were down at the river getting hitched.