War Hero

I was clearing out my Mom's attic the other day and came across a box filled with old stuff that belonged to my Grandfather. In amongst the old pictures, high school diplomas and other memorabilia I found my Grandfather's flight record book from when he served in the Navy in WWII. The records looked something like this:

4/17/44 Attack Saipan
4/18/44 Attack Saipan
4/18/44 Attack Saipan
4/19/44 Attack Saipan (crash landing)
4/20/44 Attack Guam
4/21/44 Attack Guam
4/21/44 Attack Guam
4/22/04 Rescue mission
4/22/44 Attack Okinawa
4/23/44 Attack Okinawa
4/24/44 Attack Kyushu (crash landing)

You get the point. My Grandfather flew close to 100 missions in the Pacific during WWII. Sometimes flying multiple missions in the same day and crash landing twice! I always knew that my Granfather had served in WWII, but I never knew that he was a war hero. It was chilling to read his flight log and I was reminded that we shouldn't take for granted, those who served then and now. They are all war heroes.