What Veterans Day means to a 94-year-old Sailor

Clay Steel
8 min readNov 5, 2021

“I was 14-years-old on December 7th, 1941. I was there.”

“I remember the day like it was yesterday,” grandfather assured me as we sit down to our morning breakfast together. Something you don't often hear from someone that age. “I could see the goggles on the tops of their heads as they flew over my house,” he exclaimed while looking me dead in…

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