Mother, Lois Conover Pate in her ROTC uniform with Dad, James Alton Pate in his Marine Corp uniform.
Dad spoke little of his wartime experience. He signed up the Monday after Pearl Harbor but they would not let him go until his 17th birthday. He was on a troop train on his 17th birthday and 5 weeks after Pearl Harbor.
He told a few war stories but not many and not often.
-James Byron Pate