[KoRn]

"I have a far greater respect for my grandfather these days than I did when he was living. He spent a good bit of the winter under fire and trapped during the battle of the bulge."

Same here! My grandfather was in the battle of the bulge too. He told me stories about it when I was a kid, but I was too young to really understand the significance of what he was telling me. I was 13 when he died, so my time with him was brief. I so wish I could talk to him about it now. My father was in Vietnam, but I he will never talk much about it, even when you try to get him to. What little he HAS told me was pretty bad.

[cripplecreek]

My grandfather didn’t want either of his sons to go to vietnam simply because he had seen war and didn’t want them to face it. One ended up doing his service in the national guard and the other got a scholarship to UofM. He wasn’t anti war or liberal in any sense of the word, he simply felt that he had paid enough and didn’t want to risk his sons. If they had wanted to go he would have backed them.

Granddad was such a gentle and kind man, its hard to imagine him in the middle of a brutal war.

[packrat35]

My wife's father was with Patton through europe. Here's a picture of him.