My parents, aunts and uncles immigrated to the U.S.A. at the beginning of the 1900s to escape the repression and hardships of European life at that time. The first of our family to go into service was swept up in the first draft before the war started. Dave Schwartz was immediately sent for training in the Army medical hospital in Staunton, Va. Shortly after Dave went in, my older brother Milton Joseph Schreiber who was in the Navy Reserve, was activated and sent to serve aboard the minesweeper USS WOODCOCK. My oldest brother Louis served in the Air Force, and my younger brother Leonard, who was too young to enlist, went and joined the Merchant Marine and served aboard tankers in the Pacific. My cousin Sidney was an infantryman in Europe and got a battlefield commission to lieutenant. I served in the Navy on USS LST 991 in the Pacific and wear six battle stars on my Pacific service ribbon. We were all proud to have served.