I used to golf with nicest guy one could ever meet. Very quiet and soft spoken. He was a LT. in the Marines on the 2nd wave on Iwo Jima. He never mentioned in all our time on the course. He son finally told me the story.
I used to golf with a paratrooper who landed in Normandy - just a regular guy.
And here we are, approaching another anniversary. It doesn’t seem as though our current generation/s have been paying attention to the lessons the previous ones taught us by their hard lessons. Those hard lessons will be re-learned, again, yup, the hard way...