Whenever I watch a documentary on World War II, I wonder if I'll see my dad

[Oeditpus Rex]

Even if only for a second.

Maybe they'll show a soldier with a red cross in a white square on his helmet. Maybe he'll be wearing glasses. Maybe he'll be helping a wounded soldier.

Like all the others, he did what he could.



Thanks, Dad. I miss you. :patriot:

[JCMach1]

1. Saw my father in law in a Vietnam Documentary on helicopter pilots

once...

They used stock footage from an old training film. It was a little strange.

I can't imagine what he went through... he used to fly the 'meat wagon'. :(

[QueenOfCalifornia]

2. me too...

except I am so overwhelmed with horror --- My Dad was there too. He ended up killing himself when he came home. He saw too much and it killed him.

I am going to be 51 in January and my father's horror haunts me. What is it that this group of kids is leaving for their children?

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. I'm sorry

For what he went through and what it did to him, and that you lost him over it.

I really don't know how my dad dealt with what he saw — especially near the end, when he was part of the medical corps sent to the concentration camps to help the survivors.

He never talked about it. Any of it.



To our fathers. :patriot:

[Lasher]

4. We buried my dad on Election Day last year.

He saw combat in a diesel sub in the Pacific during WWII. Tough duty.

[lamp_shade]

5. OMG... ME TOO!!!

I swear I spotted him half a dozen times.