[Egon]

Ironic when your dad fought Germans, is wearing a German parachute and listening to a German Jump Master yelling at you to hook up and prepare to jump out of a Luftwaffe plane.

Hah! That's definitely got me beat!

[ansel12]

This is less colorful but it meant something to me.

My dad was in the Navy, (the German fighting part was in the Normandy invasion) and he spent most of the war fighting the Japanese from a well known light cruiser that earned combat fame, during the 1990s I got to tour a Japanese destroyer in San Diego, it also gave me that strange feeling.