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halfghan24 t1_iy21xbb wrote

This Thanksgiving I found out my uncle’s dad served in WWII.

I figured he saw some action in the European theater or something, but it turns out he was stationed for R&R on a Moroccan beach far from any battles.

Whenever people would ask what he did during the time he served in the war, he would say “nothing, really.”

It’s always the ones who had the roughest time who want to talk about it the least.

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Ok-Owl6515 OP t1_iy4sbkp wrote

Nice! My Grandfather was in WWII. Over the holidays my family will sometimes go through his photos and letters from the war.

He was the same way. He would never talk about it. According to my Dad, he was a Sgt and all the men he commanded were killed. He spent months in a hospital from his wounds. He beat my Dad as a kid and my Dad contributes it to undiagnosed PTSD.

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