re: Relatives that served in World War 2

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only man I ever met that I knew could kill everyone in the room without blinking.

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My grandpa was in Korea and this statement rings true for me as well. He rarely spoke about it but told me a few stories, and what I’m grandmother has told me, he survived by fighting in that war.

No direct relatives were in WWII. A neighbor near my grandparents was an assistant to Eisenhower. Another was in the European theater and was messed up mentally. One night their area was ambushed my Nazi’s and he played dead under his dead friends who just died. They say he rarely talked to anyone when he made it back home. My dad tells me of one guy who was in WW1. My dad was a kid and said this guy had shell shock and would sit on his front porch shaking. The greatest generation by a long shot.