1/1000 - Sam C.

This is Sam C. from Farmingdale, NY.  Today is Memorial Day.  I met Sam while standing outside Republic Airport watching planes take off and land on practice day for the Jones Beach Memorial Day weekend air show.  Sam served in WWII in the Pacific Theater on PA-36, an amphibeous attack ship and saw action in the Marshall Islands, Phillipines and Okinawa.  It's always exciting to spend time with a member of the "Greatest Generation".  We got to watch FiFi, the last remaining airworthy B-29 fly.  When you think about it, it's kind of sad that Sam had to watch it through a chain link fence.  This being Memorial Day, I think Sam deserves being the very first portrait I post.  Thank you Sam, and all of your brothers in arms..