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17. That's true enough

But we choose to remember those who could have fallen along with those who actually did, since there would otherwise be no one left to tell the tale. But technically, you are correct—Memorial Day is for those who didn‘t make it back. My wife‘s dad, since he was on the losing side, never got recognition for what he went through. Hitler‘s Luftwaffe boss, Hermann Göring, in a candid interview from his Nürnberg jail cell, commented candidly that people had to be lied to to get them to start a war. „Why should some slob on a farm go to war when the best he can hope for is to come back in one piece?“ My father in law was that „slob on a farm,“ literally. He was drafted at age 17, sent to Stalingrad at age 18, and though he came back, he did not come back in one piece.