I had a grandfather (unfortunately no longer with us) who flew the Dresden bombing mission...he refused to talk about it afterward, even many years after the fact.
“I had a grandfather (unfortunately no longer with us) who flew the Dresden bombing mission...he refused to talk about it afterward, even many years after the fact.”
I worked for a WW2 bomber pilot who talked about his missions plenty and had personal pictures to go with it. He once bragged to me, “I bombed the hell out Vienna!” As his pictures showed, the ack-ack was thick enough to walk on. One day a shell passed through the plane, straight up through the floor and through the roof, right between his legs!