Ditto. My Uncle was the same way. Didn’t want to talk about at all. But then most military personnel I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting, if they saw combat, they don’t want to talk about it.
One of my daughter’s HS boyfriends, Class of ‘05, went into the Marines immediately after graduating. He served two stints in Iraq, as a machine gunner in a Humvee, vehicle was hit with an RPG, killed his BF who died in his arms.
When he came home he was a totally different person that the one I knew...........................
The older ones. The ones that served in WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam, rarely spoke of anything unless they were with their boys.
Not to saying that all the folks that have served in the Global War on Terror are the same, but they aren’t these guys.
My grandfather was an ambulance driver in France during WW-I.........
My Dad’s WWII stuff could not be found after he was gone.
He must have ‘vanished’ it himself.