Maternal grandfather was a doughboy in WW I; had some tales to tell. My father was in the Seabees at Okinawa, and he carried a piece of sharpnel home that was removed from just behind his ear (didn't know it was there) in 1999 just before he died. I spent time as an MP, a tanker (hated that), and finally a platoon sergeant in a rifle company with the USMC.

And my dad had two cousins in the OSS during WW II, mostly behind enemy lines.