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Message: [QUOTE="gtcam, post: 2733268, member: 2844"] My Dad was a WWII vet who was a guarding Japanese prisoners during the last 6 months of the war Never talked much about the war except one story when a train of prisoners were being off boarded, there was a few women prisoners - one was pregnant and a young GI went up and ran a bayonet through her. My father went up to the GI and stuck his pistol in the kids mouth and said he was going to blow his head off. They took the GI to the Commander and never heard from him again - turns out the kid came from money and was to become the president of Hallmark Cards Many of his friends did talk about the war - one fought on Iwo, one was wounded in the chest during the Battle of the Bulge and the only thing that saved him was a fountain pen and a mini Bible (something his son cherishes to this day), one lost his whole platoon to a Nazi machine gun nest and the great man battled alcoholism his whole life due to flashbacks I too miss my father so much - he was a proud UConn grad and we went to all UConn games together since 1965 until he couldn't anymore on the early 2000s. His was the greatest generation and to me he was the greatest of the great Happy Memorial Day to all the vets and their families [/QUOTE]