After a Computer crash and the demise of civilization, it was learned
Gunner Asch wrote on Tue, 30 Oct 2007
11:33:01 -0800 in rec.crafts.metalworking :
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:14:34 GMT, "Jerry Foster"
wrote:


So, when a veteran doesn't have much to say about his service, it is
for one of two reasons: either there is not much to tell or there is too
much to tell.

And it can be tough to know the difference.

Jerry
Viet-Nam Veteran


Indeed. Well said

Gunner
71-73, RVN

Rough rule of thumb: the more they talk about it, the less they saw.
Not a hard and fast rule, and there are exceptions. E.g., combat vets
talking to each other. The Passing of "Tribal Lore" to the next
generation. I've been told that any "sea/war story" told second or
third hand is done so because there is valuable survival information in
it.
It has taken me most of my fifty years to get more than the barest
outlines of what my Dad did to get his medals. But his response on
reading the citations after sixty years was "What a bunch of hooey! They
make it sound like I did something dangerous." Well, Dad, it was
dangerous, but you were 20 and "not stupid".

tschus
pyotr
--
pyotr filipivich
Old farts these days - no like when I was a boy. We used to
have us Real Geezers in those days. Now, they'll let anybody
with a little gray hair be an old fart.