My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My father and brothers were in the military.
I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.
My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.
I grew up in a Navy family.
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.