You ever notice that most men in those wars don't like talking about what happened in those wars?
My dad amoung them. We (the family) thought it was just insignificant memories that faded. Nope. Only very late in his life did we children discover from mom, that 5, 10 or more years after being home and in a family life, he was waking in the night with nightmares, night screams, sweats and such. To many vivid memories. Including his buddies getting shot and killed. Back then, to many WWII soldiers did not know to get some help in overcoming those remnants of service. He was lucky, he had a skill to go into service with, as a telephone man, he was assigned to the signal corp. So, while he learned how to use and carry a gun, he was not the one to shoot in battle. However, he was amoung the first to Leyte Island (The Phillipines) to set up communications ahead of the main landing and McArthur's return. Unfortunatly, while trying to trace just where my dad was during the war, my sisters discovered that the paperwork details were destroyed in a fire somewhere in the 60s and 70s. Only his release papers now give any clue of where he served.
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My dad amoung them. We (the family) thought it was just insignificant memories that faded. Nope. Only very late in his life did we children discover from mom, that 5, 10 or more years after being home and in a family life, he was waking in the night with nightmares, night screams, sweats and such. To many vivid memories. Including his buddies getting shot and killed. Back then, to many WWII soldiers did not know to get some help in overcoming those remnants of service. He was lucky, he had a skill to go into service with, as a telephone man, he was assigned to the signal corp. So, while he learned how to use and carry a gun, he was not the one to shoot in battle. However, he was amoung the first to Leyte Island (The Phillipines) to set up communications ahead of the main landing and McArthur's return. Unfortunatly, while trying to trace just where my dad was during the war, my sisters discovered that the paperwork details were destroyed in a fire somewhere in the 60s and 70s. Only his release papers now give any clue of where he served.