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On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:48:15 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

> On Friday, July 25, 2014 4:46:05 PM UTC-7, wrote:
>
> >
> > I am happy you know the tale, my father never spoke about anything to
> > do with WWII, I learned about it all later - his concentration was
> > much more on Vimeira, and it's loss. He mourned the fact that many
> > young lives were lost whilst he made it.
>
> I don't think ANYBODY's dad spoke about anything to do with WW II. My
> uncle had what we now know as PTSD. My dad just talked about how
> nice the locals were; how grateful, and how he liked their food. It
> took my wife's uncle 60 years to talk about Iwo Jima, where he had
> been in the weapons company of the 28th Regiment. The 28th's Easy
> Company supplied the men that raised the flag above Mt. Suribachi.

I think you're right. My dad is still alive, but he doesn't talk
about WWII and he was above the fighting - flying supplies over the
Atlantic and North Africa as a navigator. My (long dead) uncle's only
story (that I heard from my grandmother, not him) was about being
caught behind enemy lines and hiding in under the floor of I forget
what... (a barn, a windmill) for three days with the Nazis overhead.
That's it. No other details.

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