My brother on the left. Live 10 miles apart today and get together every week for a catch up. Life has treated us well

I sadly don't really have context for this picture, as I've found it after she passed years ago. All I know is that she used to sing when she was young and she stopped when she got married. This was probably somewhere in Quebec, Canada, but I'm not 100% sure.

Eat your heart out Willy Wonka

I went and used the scanner at work! NOTE: I got mixed up in my earlier comment - the solo portrait is the tweed suit and fedora. The pic with (my) grandma is the cowboy suit, and presumably he had just stopped crying, they both look grumpy 😂. And look at those dungarees, that's 1959!

My dad and his 5 siblings grew up in a Hell house full of abuse and they all struggled in adulthood. He was the oldest boy. BUT grandma filed for divorce "in 19 and 75, as soon as they said I could!" (She refused to be hit, so my grandfather tormented her in other ways - namely infidelity.) This little boy joined the military, met my mom in a nightclub, got married in Vegas, had me, graduated from college, and then killed himself less than a year after receiving his BA. He was 31. I have that photo too, the professional one where they hand you the diploma. I don't remember him at all but I am very grateful to have these photos and I thank you all for asking! ❤️✌🏽

Here is a photo that I scanned of my grandparents aboard the USS Missouri. My grandfather served on this ship in 1951, while it was deployed to Korea at the beginning of the Korean War. The Missouri was the first ship to the Korean peninsula. He was an officer on this vessel.

In 2014, I visited the Missouri which is now a museum ship in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. I got to see this plaque. It is a lot more fortified now. When my grandpa was still alive I told him about it and he laughed at the picture. He told me that a lot of his shipmates tried to pry it from the boards. I suppose it was some sort of Navy shipmate shenanigans.

But this is the very spot where Douglas MacArthur signed the instrument of surrender with members from the Empire of Japan. It was this day 81 years ago.