Why go grey/gray?

[Flitzer]

PR19_Kit, I bet your Dad has some great stories.

Flitzer,

I'm afraid it's 'had' rather than 'has'. 

Dad died some years ago now, and he was always reticent about discussing his WWII activities, it took me years to get him to open up about that period and even then I always had the impression he was keeping things back. Once he got going on a subject he was a mine of information though, thus the bit about the flight directions above.

Same with my Dad. He's gone now too.

He was in the Navy on Corvettes and Minesweepers.
My brother and I are sort of researching the ships he was on. We've found the two minesweepers HMS Jewel and HMS Courier so far.
He wouldn't talk much or go in to things too deeply either.