When I went to a reunion for my dad's WWII ship recently, I was presented with 3 very odd photographs. Taken from a ship that was next to my father's LST, they show a Japanese kamakazi plane in the sky, diving toward the ship, and the explosion and fire that follow the crash. It's one thing to see this on TV, and another to realize your father is in that photo. The ship went down with about half the crew. Men who could get over to another ship were rescued. These guys are all in their 80's now, but energetic, interesting, and obviously bound together. This was their 25th annual reunion. They went about 35 years before they got together the first time.