Posted by Bruce (VA) on February 20, 2012 at 08:41:22 from (24.125.80.178):
In Reply to: Re: OT Stolen Valor posted by Britcheflee on February 20, 2012 at 08:20:47:
" What is interesting is that those who really were in the thick of things often dont talk about it. "
Yep. The worse it was, the less they talk about it.
I had an uncle WIA at Tarawa; he got a medical discharge in 1944 as a result. He rarely talked about it to anyone, much less me as a kid. But, after I got back from V-N, he would talk a little. But he was clearly uncomfortable about it, so I just left it alone.
Your grandfather's regiment is pretty well known, even to us 'Yanks'. That was some really hard going for them in Holland.
One thing I always found interesting about nearly every WWII vet I knew growing up was their basic dislike of the military. My father & my uncles rarely talked about their service & never joined veterans groups. None of them. While I'm sure he expected it, my father wasn't at all impressed w/ my enlisting in the Army in 1967.
I think most of that generation saw their service as doing what had to be done. And once the war was over, they just wanted to forget about it & get on w/ their lives.
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