It haunts me still. Do you know where I can get a bucket of chicken?
LOL, Now that is a odd remark to say...
As far as hero's coming home, and not liking the attention or feeling they deserve it, I can "sort of" understand it up to a point, Even though I fully believe they all deserve it. My grandfather was a "homecoming hero" in the small little town he grew up in when he came back from the coal mines after 3 1/2 years of being a POW from going thru the Bataan Death March. My mother says the one thing she will never forget as a child, is him telling her mom after the big celebration that all he wanted to do was leave before they found out what he was really like. He was a great man, but not one for frill and fanfare. I am convinced he deserved all of the attention, he just didn't see it that way. I can't really blame him though, he was a simple down to earth man.
They have an annual Bataan Memorial Walk (or run?) in the White Sands area in New Mexico, I believe...I have relatives down there and I've thought of trying to train for it, but the climate is so much different than where I live - I don't know if I could possibly prepare for it. (I have been to the Bataan Memorial Museum in Santa Fe, and I would recommend it if you get the opportunity.)
I believe they all deserve to be welcomed home too - each and every one of them. I guess my problem is that when a plane lands in the United States carrying multiple POWs and the FNC caption says, "Pfc. Jessica Lynch Returns Home" or some such thing, I have to wonder why that sort of thing exists to the exclusion of all the others.