The ones I'll always remember are the ones who didn't make it home. It forever changed their remaining family members.
Billy, AKA Wm E Tucker, captured after the sinking of USS Houston, and died, 21yrs old, as prisoner working on Death Railway.
Ginger, AKA Arthur Newcomb, lost in 1942 on submarine, USS Grunion.
Buddy, AKA Frederick Cobb, KIA as P-38 pilot in France, 1944.
Frankie Snook, MIA, part of crew lost when their plane was lost in Pacific. Four of the over 400,000 lost in WW2.
Santa Cruz, CA