My father was in the Battle for Okinawa.
my dad was U.S. Army and training medics in Salt Lake City Utah, one of his brothers was a medic on Saipan (never said one word about it in 30 years while I was around), his other brother was a loader on an anti aircraft gun on a destroyer in the Solomon’s.
All of my mothers 4 brothers were Navy and overseas. I’m real proud of my families WWII record which was one reason there was never any question I was going in.
Interestingly, some of my GI buddies would try and kid Yugi and Minesaki about their role in the War (on Okinawa). On anything else they would laugh and joke and carry on and very friendly. All us kids just loved them. But, bring up their war experiences and they would just shake their heads and say “dami!, dami!” (means no good) and walk off.