My grandfathers were only five years apart in age, but that small increment meant that my paternal grandfather drove ambulances in Italy in 1918 while my maternal grandfather was still in high school.
A group portrait, probably taken in New York
With Ivy in Italy
Drivers and their ambulances
My mother’s father graduated from the Naval Academy at 20
With Captain E. J. “Mike” Moran, March 1942
As commander of the GRAYSON, a destroyer, in December 1942
