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Originally Posted by wodin
I missed the Apollo 11 landing because I was in the US Navy, underway on a submarine. We didn't have television on submarines in those days.
I was in the crews bunkroom of my first submarine, USS Chivo, SS-341 (yes it was a WWII era diesel powered submarine) when President Kennedy was assassinated, nearly six years earlier.
My son and his wife visited here in Hawaii last summer, and we toured the USS Bowfin memorial. I stared talking about the different aspects of the ship and literally drew a crowd. I don't think anyone there actually knew anyone who had served on one of those boats.
So I'm a tween, too young for the Greatest Generation and too old to be a boomer. I was born during the war, but remember nothing of it.
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Okay, I thought you were younger than my parents generation as they would all be approaching 100 now if they were still alive. All my aunts and uncles and both parents are long gone now, except one aunt who turned 100 this past January. I was born in 1958 so I’m almost a tween between the Boomers and Gen X, but technically still a Boomer since my dad and all my uncles were in the military during WWII and started their families during or after the war. My oldest cousins are about your age. My dad was in the Army but served under Adm Halsey during the Island Hopping campaigns. He liked Halsey but hated MacArthur!