cherriblossoms
03-09-10, 03:01 AM
Hello All,
Not sure if this is the right place but I'll give it a try. My Father was in the Marine Corps from 1953-1972. He passed away and I'd like to find out more about his career and what he was like as a young man before he met my Mother in Okinawa at the end of his career. I came along and changed everything. His name was SSgt Thomas Jefferson or TJ or Jeff were nicknames he was called. My Father was a legal/admin clerk. I have his last DD214 and will write the national archives to get his military records to piece together a little bit of a history. I would like to chat with anyone who knew my father and could tell me what he was like. I miss him greatly still and finding out would help me ease my sorrows a little. I have his flag from the funeral but would like to make a shadow box with his accomplishments. I'm in the USAF so I don't understand the Marine Corps abbr and acronyms on his old military documents. So any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated or if they know where else I can look for other Marines that might have known him, please let me know.
Thank you all for reading my post. Cheers!
Not sure if this is the right place but I'll give it a try. My Father was in the Marine Corps from 1953-1972. He passed away and I'd like to find out more about his career and what he was like as a young man before he met my Mother in Okinawa at the end of his career. I came along and changed everything. His name was SSgt Thomas Jefferson or TJ or Jeff were nicknames he was called. My Father was a legal/admin clerk. I have his last DD214 and will write the national archives to get his military records to piece together a little bit of a history. I would like to chat with anyone who knew my father and could tell me what he was like. I miss him greatly still and finding out would help me ease my sorrows a little. I have his flag from the funeral but would like to make a shadow box with his accomplishments. I'm in the USAF so I don't understand the Marine Corps abbr and acronyms on his old military documents. So any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated or if they know where else I can look for other Marines that might have known him, please let me know.
Thank you all for reading my post. Cheers!