*nods* None of the vets I knew from WWI or WWII ever talked much about it. Dad would get going on silly stories from the base in Hawaii where he was stationed, but it was stuff like the pranks the guys used to play on one another, never anything about the war itself. He never saw combat himself --- he ended up being a radio operator --- but he lost a bunch of friends; he was one of only two guys in his training unit who survived the war. Charlie just never talked about it; he'd change the subject to his pre-war hitch in the merchant marine instead.