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Originally Posted by Roughneck
So still a teenager when WWII started. Crazy.
Funny enough there was a post on Reddit the other day that catalogued complaints about youth over the centuries, and there was one from 1938 that would have called your dad and his peers' generation as 'wimpy' and 'not inclined to physical activity.'
Puts things into perspective.
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He joined the Navy when he was 20 years old - in 1941. He was an old guy (32) when I was born.