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On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:01:55 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> All my friends had all sorts of grandiose stories about what their
> fathers had done during the war. All my father did was work on ground
> crew, servicing Spitfire and Hurricane fighters, and that he spent the
> last year of the war in British Columbia. At least, that is all he had
> told us.


I think the ones who do the least talk the most. One of our friends
who can't stop talking about the Viet Nam war was something akin to a
typist. In college, I had a friend who carried the body bags off
airplanes. He said he knew what condition the body was in if the bag
sagged or not.

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