Past's Present: The Pacific →

Watching The Pacific made me realize that I need to talk more with my grandfather — who served as a Navy Commander in the Pacific Theater — about his time during the War.

Growing up, I was the middle grandchild; four of my cousins were younger, and four older than me. There is a 12 year difference between the oldest and youngest.

War isn’t something to talk about as a family with so many kids around, so we never really had the chance. Now that we’re all older, all over 18, I think it’s time we all sat down and learned about his experiences.

I just finished watching the final episode of The Pacific. The comparisons to Band of Brothers are as inevitable as they are unfair. Brothers was primarily about the bonds that the men made as they were thrown into circumstances beyond their control, about the citizen soldiers fighting for the…