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And it was the same for my dad (83 this year) in WWII (and Bill Mauldin, who was in his theater - read Back Home if you haven't already), and for my late father in law on Iwo, and for my grandfather in WWI, and for my 2 gg grandfathers and my cousins in the WBTS . . . and for Winston Churchill in the Sudan " . . . there is nothing so exhilarating as to be shot at without result . . . "

It is an exalted fraternity, like no other. That's why those of us who stand and wait say, "Thank you, more than we can say."

It is an exalted fraternity, like no other.

You don't have to have seen combat to get that feeling. Just having worn the uniform puts you in a different life category than someone who hasn't.

My 3 years in the Army was uneventful but to this day, its never been discussed with my two stepsisters or my nieces and nephews. They have never asked what was the Army like for me.

Its odd because you can be at a party or in a bar or anywhere for that matter and run into another vet and suddenly I have more in common with this total stranger than I do with my own family. You can sit there for hours just talking military stuff and when you part ways you feel like you have just had a reunion with a lost brother you hadn't seen in 35 years.

I equate talking about war and the military with someone who has never been in the military to being in a sex education class being taught by a professor who has never had sex.

You can't do it because they've never been there and they just don't understand.