[seeker1950]

I recently watched all the episodes of the PBS documentary, THE WAR, by Ken Burns on WWII.
My dad passed away from colon cancer 12 years ago at age 62. He never talked about his experiences in the war, though he was stationed in many areas of the South Pacific...Leyte, Phillipines, New Guinea, Japan. When he was drafted (he said to me one time that he "didn't want to go"), he met his brother returning home from his experiences in North Africa, and his brother cried for him.
As I watched this documentary, I actually, physically, reached my hand over to imagine holding my dad's hand.
I wish he had talked more about it to me, but I also realize I wasn't in the mindset to recieve it while he was alive.
Patty

[lenjan]

My dad was in Korea and Vietnam, and he never talked about it either. I think it's just the way that generation was. My ex-T now works at a VA hospital in the palliative care area, and he says he can't get those guys to talk about it at all, and that they have to be talked into accepting pain meds -- they think they should just be stoic and tough it out.

My dad died 8 years ago at 70. I miss him too.

((((((((Patty))))))