My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.
My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.
I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father's side had served in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother.
My father was in the First World War.
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.