My father never spoke about the war. He fought the Japanese. He was a mathematician in the artillery. (I got that out of him after a couple of stiff whiskeys at the end of his life). My mother's family was in the navy. My uncle had to be invalided out due to a breakdown at sea. I guess he went “boo-hoo,” lol! He never spoke about that, either. My grandparents went through the Great Depression raising 4 kids and my granddad at 15 volunteered for WWI. I have a photo of him sitting on a War Horse. They never complained either.
God bless them all.