Saving Private Ryan gripe

He may have.

His granddaughters are hot though

I don't have any immediate family who are veterans, but I can imagine many of them keep all that shite internal after returning home. Not wanting to relive any of it.

My grandfather said he saw some shite in the Pacific that he would take to his grave.

Talking about memories of your friends/countrymen dying brutal deaths right in front of you isn't something most like to do.

He's like the anti Chris Kyle

Or that the movie is filled with cliche war movie tropes?

My grandpa never told me any war stories from the pacific. Not once. And i used to ask him questions all the time. Even for a elementary school project, he only gave simple answers.

After he died, my dad said he never told him much about it either. They went to a special vets and family preview of saving private ryan, and my dad said they sat for 10 mins after the movie so my grandpa could collect himself, and saw there were many others doing the same.

My grandfather never talked about the war until he was dying

Spielberg had P51's saving the day. They weren't used for close air support IRL because their liquid cooled engines were vulnerable to ground fire.

I attended my gradfather's funeral a few months ago. He was 95. Landed at Normandy on D-day plus four, and served all the way to the end.

He never talked about any of his experiences. He never attended a single reunion of his regiment. He asked that there be no military presence at his funeral. He kept no mementos. Not a box in the attic. Not his medals. Nothing.

I asked my grandmother why it was this way. She said for two reasons. One was that his company experienced 150% casualties in 10 months. All the guys he trained with and landed with were dead or wounded by the end of the war.

The second was that after being in combat for so long, his unit was eventually rotated to the rear. When the Germans started really surrendering en masse after the Bulge, they turned his unit into an MP/Prisoner escort company. But apparently there was a bit of a scandal when none of the prisoners assigned to them ever made it back behind the lines.

Have known and meet many WW II vets over the years. The closer they were to the shite the less they tended to talk. I had an uncle who was at Pearl on Dec 7th and later on Guadalcanal and Guam and never said a word to me about it. I was a WW II nut growing up and never once did he say a thing about his experiences. I did not find out until after he died. I also spent over a decade as a dedicated WW II Re-enactor and our unit did many displays for memorials and vet reunions. I have talked to literally 100's of WW II vets and his not talking to family is very believable. It is really remarkable some of the stories those vets told us. They appreciated us appreciating and honoring them.