We Were So Young

...The record here will verify that those sea stories, that now I am forbidden to tell, because that was a long time ago, are those stories that have been repeated many times to family and friends. I can now verify all events in this record and say, "I told you that I won the war single handed."...

In his memoirs, Howard Graves describes the circumstances leading to his early adoption, childhood memories, growing up during the Great Depression, through his service in the US Navy in the Pacific during WWII.