Amen! My late uncle was combat engineer, landed first wave at Omaha beach, fought through France, thrown into Hurtgen Forest meat grinder and was sent off line with trench foot and frostbite to the Ardennes, a “quiet” sector where he had about recovered only to get into the Battle of the Bulge. He survived that and fought deep into either Austria or Czechoslovakia.
I’m sure your very proud of him.
Without men like your uncle we’d all be speaking German right now.