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But for Pearl Harbor I think I would have been a farmer's son in Illinois. My father enlisted right after Pearl Harbor, and was on his way to training by the end of that month. He wanted to be a paratrooper. They told him he wasn't big enough, but because he knew how to repair tractors they sent him to Kelly Field to learn to be an airplane mechanic, and he was associated with military aviation in some form for the rest of his life, no doubt contributing to my 22 year stint in the USAF.