Pop-Pop

Pop-Pop, my dad, your granddad, Donald William McClain was born on this day in 1921. If my math serves me correctly, he would be 95 years old today. Here is a picture in 1992, when he came to visit us in Ohio.

He lived in Florida and we moved to Ohio from Florida when you were 2. So you really did not have much of a chance to get to know him. I'm sorry for that because he was a wonderful man and a great dad to me! He was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Westwood, NJ, moved to Pearl River, NY to raise his family and retired,with your Nana, who died one year before you were born, to New Port Richey, Florida. After he graduated from high school, he joined the Army Air Corps, where he fought in World War II. He was a highly decorated soldier earning both the "Air Medal" and the "Distinguished Flying Cross" for his service in the Pacific, where he was a ball turret gunner on a B24.

Happy Birthday Dad! We miss you!