My dad, whose funeral was a year ago today, was a medic (pharmacists mate second class) at the Aeia Naval Hospital in Honolulu. He helped lots of guys who were dying and chopped up. Never talked much about it. In his later years he was pretty much anti-war.
May he rest in peace....we're approaching what would have been my Pop's 97th early next week, and then the third anniversary of his death very shortly thereafter.