There were 9 children in his family, 8 boys and 1 girl, Dad was #7, Aunt Sue was right in the middle, with 4 older and 4 younger brothers.
My Dad was too young for WWII, he and his younger brother served in Korea, Dad was section chief for a battery of 105's.
2 of his older brothers saw action in Europe during WWII, another one, Aunt Sue's husband, was captured by the Germans and spent 4 months in a POW camp.
The other 2 older brothers were in the Army
CORPS of Engineers, both helped to build the Radford Army Ammunition Plant near Radford, VA, and Fort Pickett, near Blackstone, VA. (Another uncle on my Mom's side was head of maintenance at Fort Pickett.)
My Dad's youngest brother was too sickly to serve in the military and died from hepatitis complicated by double pneumonia back in the early 50's. Dad honored him by giving his first-born son (ME
) his name.
Neither me nor my 2 brothers were in the service, I didn't even have to register for Selective Services, since my birthday fell between where Carter abolished registering for the draft and Reagan started SS.