Roopod

The year of the "Bay of Pigs" fiasco was the year I was born. I'm interested in history, especially military history. My father was an American Infantryman in Europe in '44-'45. His division was slated as the first amphibious wave to attack south of Tokyo for Operation Coronet on 1 March 1946. The dropping of two American atomic bombs saved him from that. My brother was a radar repairman while serving in the USAF over in Libya before Qadafi kicked him out. I enlisted in the USMC in 1985 as a guaranteed Grunt, even though I qualified for other specialties. Why? Because my dad was an infantryman, that's why. He posed a question to me when I was a teenager about how he couldn't understand how people could do what they did after he was given a tour of one of the liberated Nazis death camps in 1945. After thirteen years in the Marine Corps and diligent study since then I was able to answer his question.