My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.
My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at the War College.
I was a sailor. I was torpedoed, spent two weeks in a lifeboat. I was on the Murmansk run; I worked a 20 mm. machine gun, helped bring down a Stuka, all that kind of stuff. I've got letters from Franklin Roosevelt for things I did then. But those kind of credentials didn't work for you in the Cold War.
My father and brothers were in the military.
My father was in the First World War.
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.
My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.