Indeed, indeed...!!!
I know I’ve posted this before, but, some weren’t here the last time I did...
My first job in HS was working at a local go-kart track for a WWII vet and his wife.
He was a Navy Seabee during the war. He shared many stories with us. My favorite was of him driving across a South Pacific island (either Saipan or Peleliu, can’t remember which anymore) airstrip in his dress uniform and cap and being shot at by a holdout Japanese sniper...luckily, the bullet went through the top of his cap, missing his head by about 1/2 inch...!!!!!!!
He made the cover of Stars and Stripes magazine for that incident, and showed us the copy he had saved for all those years.
Some of us early employees remained good friends with them for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately, she passed about a decade before he did from lung cancer. He passed from natural causes.
I still miss them very much. They were such neat people, and we always called them Mama and Papa...they were like second parents to us.