Watching Star Trek on BBC America. There was a scroll with a special announcement

[Siwsan]

18. This is so interesting. Only one of my uncles would ever talk about their experience in WWII.

He was a pilot trainer in England so he wasn't ever in combat, but he did experience some of the horrors of war. One of his other duties was clearing out the planes when they returned. Some had been shot up, and the crew killed. He didn't say much about that except that it was gruesome.

My other uncles who served overseas were both combat veterans. One was at the Battle of the Bulge and the other enlisted in the Navy and was in the war in the Pacific. The two ships he was assigned to were hit - one torpedoed and one hit by a Kamikazi. Both were, for the most part, pretty quiet about their experiences. Both suffered from what we now know was PTSD, and both died very young. The little my one uncle shared with my father about his experience in the Battle of the Bulge was horrific. Same with my uncle in the Navy, about the ships.