Paul.. we can never forget!
My father was one of the lucky ones.. enlisted against his Mother's wishes at 17, did all his boot camp and then the war was over. Discharged in April.
My brother did 20 years in the CAF.. Herc Squadron Commander out of Trenton. Every hell hole in the world including the Gulf War. He doesn't talk much about his deployments and many he can't talk about.. because they "didn't happen" according to our government. He has so many things tucked away in "invisible boxes", to get out at a later date, he can be a hard person to get to converse. I can't imagine what some of the WWI and WWII vets have/had in their "invisible boxes" that they lived with their entire lives and never spoke about.