[Gay State Conservative]

I've heard it said many times that WWII veterans seldom,if ever,talked to their families about the war. In fact my sister-in-law’s Dad had fought in Europe and she said that she only heard him talk about it once...and very briefly and with no details at all.

[TheWriterTX]

My Dad fought in Korea.

On the three occasions he talked about it, he cried.

The only other times he cried were upon realizing that my nephew was born with catastrophic disabilities and might never live outside of the hospital, at his mother’s funeral, and at my mother’s funeral.

Otherwise, he was unshakable.

That’s when I understood that war is a special level of hell.