My direct ancestor was George Soule, who came on the Mayflower. My uncle was on the Arizona when it was sunk in Pearl Harbor, he survived. My dad worked in the shipyards in Tacoma during WWII, he had had polio as a child and was left with a limp so couldn't serve in the military, but he did serve in the calvary National Guard in Wyoming. One of my cousins helped develop microwave ovens, another helped develop the Poloroid camera.