I’ll never forget the opening of Band of Brothers, when they interviewed one of the real members of Easy Company, about how in his small town, four men committed suicide, because they were classified as 4F, and couldn’t enlist.
A different time, indeed.
IIRC, in one of the interview segments of Band of Brothers, Dick Winters was talking about the men he’d served with in Easy Co, and mentioned one of his grandchildren asked him if he was a hero in the war...
Winters replied that no, he wasn’t a hero, but he’d served with some...
Just finished binge watching The War by Ken Burns, on Netflix...Worth the time...
Yes. The older I get, the more I appreciate them. And those who went to Korea, and those of my generation, who went to Vietnam. And those who went to Desert Storm, and all the campaigns since. I appreciate them so much.