re: Relatives that served in World War 2

My paternal grandfather piloted a drop boat at D-day, and my maternal grandfather island-hopped in the Pacific. The later saw the Enola Gay on its way to the mainland, before knowing what all the extra security was for.

I tutor history and I tell kids about them all the time. I'm just some dude in his 30s, and I'm old enough to have gone fishing with men who liberated both Japan and Europe. It ain't ancient history. It's still shaping geopolitics every single day.