“As children we would hear the funny stories from the army but not much about anything else. He kept those experiences to himself.”
I think this is true for many children of WWII vets. We would ask my dad “What did you do in the War?” He always said he dug foxholes. Perhaps he did, but it turned out he did quite a few other things as well that he only told us a few months before he died several years ago.
All of them were such heroes. And part of what made them so was their humility and their sense of duty.
God bless them wherever they are in God’s universe.
My dad told 2 stories, one about his dislike of Eisenhower which probably saved his life and another about having to ditch into the ocean, said they had to push him out and eating sand when he finally got to land.
When he died my brother’s Air Force friend went through his medals and was amazed and very respectful, he wrote it all down and they gave them to me but I could tell my brother wanted them and gave them him so I still don’t know much about his service.