Originally Posted by
frenchlion
My late dad served in the Navy from '38 until '53. His brother,who was in the Irish guards, is in a military cemetery near Arnhem..he didn't get to the bridge that was a little too far....On my mother's side, she had two brothers that were old enough to be called up and they served in the army as did two others of my uncles. It's curious but they all had the same thing in common and that is they never...or extremely rarely....ever talked about the war.
It seems today that people who were not even born in that era speak more about the war than those that actually experienced it.