It’s good they found him. Closure is good.
A kid in my neighborhood did a tour in ‘nam. He wrote his parents about how hot and boring it was but he was thankful his office had air conditioning. When he came home, they noticed he had a Purple Heart (2 clusters I think). He told his mother he fell down the steps in the building where he worked. No one disputed it in front of her.
Good choice. Did you ever find out how he earned them?
‘He wrote his parents about how hot and boring it was but he was thankful his office had air conditioning.”
That can be a very true statement, having worked in an air conditioned office, being bored etc. Working in an office, or being a REMF, did not exclude one from combat. There were many ways for a REMF to get wounded during a mortar attack or ground assault such as being on the perimeter or just running to your bunker.
Just didnt want mom and dad to worry.What a good son.
When I was in the DaNang hospital (105.5 fever, not wounded) after a tough month in the bush, I wrote my Mom telling her that the last operation "was a little rough", but no details. Her return letter contained a newspaper clipping of an article telling that my specific USMC company had started that operation with 243 men and returned with 113.
She had underlined those figures and written above them "a little rough, huh?" Mom's have a way of finding out!