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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marko, post: 263060, member: 210&quot;]My 91 year-old uncle passed away.&nbsp; I have been making arrangements and I have reached the stage of finding the joy in his life.&nbsp; I want to share a picture of him when he was just 24 taken in 1950 from his Navy ID card.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have found his service medals and the ships he served on.&nbsp; His medals are:&nbsp; Good Conduct Medal for service ending 1949, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WWII Kamikaze Survivor Medal, WWII Victory Medal, China Service Medal (Extended), United Nations Service Medal, National Defense Medal, and Korean Service Medal.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ships on which he served from 1943 to 1964 were the USS Taluga (hit by a Kamikaze), the USS Boxer, the USS Boston, the USS Kyne, The USS Charles P. Cecil, and the USS John W. Weeks.</p><p><br /></p><p>My cousin has asked me for his medals, and I will give them to him because they served together (he is a Korean War vet), but I will keep the Kamikaze Survivor Medal.&nbsp; I would like to share pictures of his medals with you guys when I can get to it, planning a memorial service.&nbsp; He wanted his ashes scattered in the Pacific.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s all good, he had a great life and was full of life himself.&nbsp; He had a ton of crazy adventures he always told us about, he was the fun uncle. I miss him a lot, though. Crazy a lot....[ATTACH=full]82453[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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