KonaPaul
12-05-16, 12:22 PM
31046
December 7th is the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that changed the life of many people. My father enlisted in the Marine Corps, and was in the 2nd Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Div. on the island of Saipan when he had a serious spinal injury, and was hospitalized, first at Pearl Harbor and then at the USNH Camp Pendleton. His 19 year old wife could not handle it and abandoned him and his two sons. After leaving the Corps, he worked in construction and went from foreman to superintendent to project manager. From his injury he lived his life in pain until his death by suicide at the age of 42.
Due to my father being in construction, we moved about once a year and my last year in high school was in Hawaii. Going to school where the majority of students were Japanese, I soon learned they were very interesting people with an fascinating culture and that they had no more control over the wars their government started than we did. After high school I enlisted in the Marine Corps at Pearl Harbor and after the Corps my first wife was a Japanese girl from Hawaii and we had two terrific sons.
December 7th is the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that changed the life of many people. My father enlisted in the Marine Corps, and was in the 2nd Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Div. on the island of Saipan when he had a serious spinal injury, and was hospitalized, first at Pearl Harbor and then at the USNH Camp Pendleton. His 19 year old wife could not handle it and abandoned him and his two sons. After leaving the Corps, he worked in construction and went from foreman to superintendent to project manager. From his injury he lived his life in pain until his death by suicide at the age of 42.
Due to my father being in construction, we moved about once a year and my last year in high school was in Hawaii. Going to school where the majority of students were Japanese, I soon learned they were very interesting people with an fascinating culture and that they had no more control over the wars their government started than we did. After high school I enlisted in the Marine Corps at Pearl Harbor and after the Corps my first wife was a Japanese girl from Hawaii and we had two terrific sons.