Posting late, but thinking of Charles. He was an unusual combination. As a crew member of the ISS Grenadier, he was a submariner who survived a sinking and a POW of WWII. Charles never talked cont

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Publicly about that time. But I have read others accounts if it and I sometimes think I have a small inkling of what he went through. I remember one Memorial Day several years ago when he was schedule to be the bell ringer in a Tolling of the Boats ceremony - a submarine tradition where the names of every US submarine lost is read and the bell is rung after each. When Charles reached the Grenadier, he froze and you could see his shoulders starting to heave. I placed one hand on his shoulder and waited with him - he recovered and I just said “when you’re ready” and we went on.

And now I think that I don’t know jack about what those POWs went through. How horrible must it have been to come back 50 years later. How can I possibly comprehend it from a mere book.

Charles survived the war and passed away a few year back, so maybe Memorial Day isn’t his. For what he has lived with, I’m not upset at the distinction. He lived and suffered with it for years

I still have a hard time with calling the day Happy. But we who know should remember that our worst days could have still been a whole, whole lot worse.

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