70 years after Iwo Jima, veterans and families honor those who served
Ruth Ann Kepler didn’t know the details of her father’s military service until a couple of years after his death in 1971.
He was in the Navy, that much she knew. But when Kepler or her three sisters would ask him about his service, Robert William Strecker kept his answers short.
“He’d say, ‘Oh yeah, I was in the Navy. It was a good time,’ and left it at that,” Kepler said.
She would learn later that her father served with the Navy’s Pacific Fleet from 1942 to 1946. That he was stationed on a submarine chaser during World War II. And that he served at the Battle of Iwo Jima, which began 70 years ago Thursday.
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[font color=green]My father was in the Navy at the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.[/font]
