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gnatty8 
Thanks man, that's a real compliment! Didn't serve, but if I had, there would have been a USN in block letters off to the side of the eagle's head.
It is cool man. I look at those guys with such admiration, even more than I have for the soldiers today (and I have lots for them too). I feel that generation, the Greatest Generation, had to suffer in silence. They served in a time where the horrors of war were just as aweful as they are now, but had to return with a stoic silence that I know ate away at my maternal grandfather's heart. My paternal grandfather, the one who had ink like yours, had ice running through his veins...was a uscle man/gangster in Williamsburg before the war, left that life to serve his country....incredible