May have missed it...when is his birthday?

He mentioned having the rifle sent home to "North Tonawanda"... that's basically Buffalo, NY. One of the Band of Brothers guys was from there as well. Did he move from Buffalo to Tennessee? I'd like to write him.

I live in Huntsville Alabama I’d love to have the opportunity to thank Mr. Gosch for his service and hear more of his ww2 stories. His voice is like smooth honey over gravel :-)

his birthday was 12/08 - just turned 98 from m North Tonawanda, NY

@@susan7970 Holy cow that's the day before my birthday, and I'm 30 mins from him. I gotta meet this guy!!

I think he closes his eyes and pauses at the moment he does because he is in a reverie of divine communion with his God, thanking Him yet again for having spared his life at that moment so he could tell his story at this moment. I think he's overwhelmed by the Love that God showed him in a way so direct it could have had only one source -- and he knows it. How can you possibly respond to the Love that without question saved your life other to recognize and give thanks for it?

ABSOLUTELY!

Too true hes left with them horrifying memories

When you have nearly died many time's, and should be dead, you thank God, and His Son everyday, and you tell your story. God bless everyone.

Wars are caused by the governments of different countries.not the folk walking the streets.beatha no bas.

Can definitely feel he was still there while speaking about it.

You can literally see him going back in time. Bet he could hear and smell war all over again.

That's exactly what I just said to my wife.

A hero, for taking a man life...

@@rononeal979 there’s more to it than that. But I doubt that you would understand.

You should document their stories. It’s a shame that we are losing our vets to old age and a lot of their stories die with them.

Never got those stories. I was to young for him to share and I don't even think he shared with my older brother. He was a navigator on a b17 in the 8th airforce. I found a guy on Facebook when I was in my 20s who had action reports and rosters from his time flying. I realized why he didn't share with us. I miss him also. He died in 2010 after suffering from Parkinsons for over a decade

Thank them for us.

Thank you

Keep up the Good work!

Thank you for your service. You're a hero, and you can beat the Alcoholism. I'm 15 yrs clean.

dont forget the dreams they dont go away..I was in the Australian infantry for 12 years.....

My Grandfather was a Korean War Marine also, however he was too young to fight in Okinawa as he was too young for WWII. What can earnestly say is that my Grandfather was the same way, with never speaking of his time in Korea, but rather putting that time behind him.

@@marcusdelk7708 Must of been with the 1st Marine Div."Guadalcanal"!

🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too forever

@@marcusdelk7708 "The Forgotten War " ! Korea was a meat grinder. USA lost nearly 34 000 soldiers in Korea from 1951-53 . I think sum historians claim nearly 54000 were killed . Some of the bloodiest fighting in World history took place. My father was drafted late 53 , as part of the Korean War if it was going to continue, but great fully not so. I lost a relative in SouthVietnams Central Highlands mid 3/68 , tail end of bloody TET , nearly 2wjs. Before my 11th bday . I'm m an indirect casualty of that conflict by currently being on anti- anxiety , and depressants medications . Seen from 1965-69 friends bros. and neighbors sons sent there . Most came back classic cases of PSTD. A classic case of PSTD was my grandpa( Dad's side) ! He was a medic with cat.s rank in the USAs elite 82nd A/B Division in WW2 in the ETO ! Man , the harrowing , on nearly , and seeing death edge from Normandy , and the bloody fighting he seen , and heard @ STE. Mere Eglise , the blood soaked ground from Grimm fighting in those hedgerows ( DDay 6/6/1944) , "Operation Market Garden" happening @ Holland (mid9/1944) where the Brit paratroopers got mauled @Arnhem , and the USAs 101 and 72nd A/B units faired slightly better but still couldn't consumate a sure footing on the German side of the Rhine River , and later to defend a small parcel of territories against determined Nazi- German counterattacks at high casualties. A bridge too far it was. Grandpa was on his way to the Ardennes. After a brief respite . The jeep he was riding in , with 4 other soldiers , hit a mine kia the driver , soldier behind the driver , wounding the soldier behind my grandpa In front seat where grandpa got wounded too. Both wounded troopers laid off to side of ditch for nearly 1/2 a day before being picked up by USA troops . Luckily , Joachim Pieper of the 1st Waffen SS Panzer Division wasn"t there instead, for grandpa like the other 130-50 , and probably then sum , that Colonel Joachim Pieper had murdered @ Malmady , Belgium. Grandpa was reluctant to talk about his hellish time in the ETO , for it would bring up not to nice of a time period. It took years for him to break out , and talk about his nightmarish experiences .And , what battles grandpa was In was only a fraction of other major engagements the Allied were involved in .

@@marcusdelk7708 God bless your grandpa for serving this nation USA I'm.a bloody war that shouldn't , and never be forgotten !!

Dad was in the 22nd in Okinawa too. BAR man also! He told me once when showing a picture of some of his buds in the squad, that only him and pointed to another guy, were , to his knowledge, the only living and non-wounded Marines left there. He lost it and was send out after losing his foxhole buddy by a Jap infiltrator who cut his throat. Dad, never spoke much about his experiences in the war. As a Marine, myself, I understood that more completely after my tour in Nam. >salute> to your grandpa also! Simper Fi!

God bless

Wow. Isn't that something

We talk shit to each other, but Americans, New Zealanders, Polynesians, Australians, British, French all fought and died together during that war. Russians call it the Great Patriotic War. While I don't agree with them, it definetly was just that and all sides fight like it was.

Can't imagine what the Japanese imperial army would have done to NZ

@@angrybear86same thing they planned to do to us in Australia Completely subjugate and overturn our democratic government to their way of governance as well as completely eclipsing our culture and way of living to their own liking 😢

​@@EncrypticMethods sad we're becoming what they fought against. Never give up. Freedom eternal.

Recognize your fellow country men for the life that you have today . Don’t let them be forgotten !!

you will be speaking Chinese soon. get ardern out now.

Great comment. Pray for America. We are in trouble.

"Yankee" is how the local Indians said "English." If it wasn't for George Washington, we'd all be speaking English.

They never would have held the pacific in reality..we never would have been speaking Japanese..but bless the young men that fought so bravely ..amazing

I'm a kiwi too

If you study war, tactics, events, you begin to see patterns of tiny details that changed the entire scope of battle. I can’t help but attribute these things to divine intervention. Like Jeb Stuart in the Civil War, and the battle of Gettysburg. He was days late arriving, solely because he was the cool kid, fast cavalry, busy partying and schmoozing the southern ladies. If he had been there from the first day, the North would almost certainly have been routed and the entire war gone differently. Arrogance and indifference of one man, flipped the entire war. These tales he told, he attributes his survival to divine intervention, and so do I. He was meant to live, and meant to destroy the evil empire Japan had become. He hurt for not seeing men grow and have children, but he was meant to do what he did in that war, and meant to win the battles he fought.

Like the battle of Midway. How can all those decisions go the way they had to? How can one bomb that hit one aircraft carrier just chain react and sink it? How can an overflight just have enough cloud cover to obscure the American fleet? A secular man might chalk it up to freakishly good luck. I don’t believe that. I believe it’s small voices, changing big events.

Amen

Okinawa was brutal 12,700 Americans were killed, over 40,000 wounded. Worse than Iwo Jima. This man was part of America's greatest generation.

Greatest generation.

@@lars277 even more Japanese died, possibly 100x Japanese than Americans, death toll was insanity

@@lars277 good enough numbers to wipe out civvies with bombs, won't you say?

My grandfather was there but with Army Americal div. He said they fault right beside the marines.

Write them down & see if enough to publish, or start putting them here.

He mentioned “God” and “Japs.” Surely, KZfaq will take it down…

@@nigel900 vote blue

@@kbanghart Can’t… I have principles and a consensus.

@@nigel900 me too

🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too forever

Which outfit?

Your dad is part of the Great Generation. Men like him saved us.

wow

Sounds like a hero to ke

I'd rather call WW2 veterans heroes rather than any of the recent north American soldiers in Middle East. At least this man fought for an honorable reason, not some hidden geopolitical goal under the guise of anti-terrorism and anti-dictatorship.

@@awfan221 You say that like the people that fought in the middle east knew why they were fighting for oil. They didn't. Their patriotism was exploited and I think thats a bigger tragedy than anything. Very similar to Vietnam except in Nam a lot of the soldiers were draftees and didn't have a choice. This shows in how we've lost most soldiers to suicide than combat fatalities in the middle east. I truly hope we as a country will learn from this.

@@MitchJohnson0110 You're right, the soldiers didn't have any clue what they were fighting for, they were just merely doing the service of their government. My issue is not with them, but that being said, they are neither heroes nor antagonists/evil/bad. It's just another dangerous job dictated by the leaders, no more to it. I wouldn't bow to any vet from the middle east or remove my hat for any of them. I only remove my hat for the anthem (Canadian, English and French), which was fought for and upheld by those who fought in WW1 and WW2.

@@MitchJohnson0110 Name the date and time one single drop of oil was taken from the Middle East as a result of American fighting. The dishonorable conduct comes from idiots like you who lie about goals of American foreign policy.

Indeed vital

There 119,000 WW2 veterans alive today, and they are passing away at 131 per day

@@natsusatsujinki8342 I genuinely dislike when soldiers are compared to murderers. If you want to make the argument that soldiers are murderers do not look at them for at the time they were naive youths doing what they were told in a forced war, look higher than that. Also the IJA committed far worse atrocities than you can imagine if you want to make that sort of point.

@@natsusatsujinki8342 so easy for a man to say those kinds of ignorant things that has never been faced with any sort of situation even remotely close to what these soldiers had faced. I can tell just by the tone in your words that your one of these people that like to act so righteous.

@@natsusatsujinki8342 just be glad you’re living in good times. God is good, but things happen and unfortunately to survive you may have to do what Mr. Gosch had to. Don’t blame the soldiers who would be forced to serve or be jailed. Blame the politicians and greedy men who have power to end millions of lives and choose to do so in war.

@@natsusatsujinki8342 you haven’t experienced anything close to what these men experienced because of what they did 🤷🏻‍♂️ but what’s the old saying? Good men create good times, good times create weak men and weak men create hard times. you should think before you type

@@natsusatsujinki8342 just stop lol

Well said. A genuine privilege. Freedom has a high price… that can only be paid for in blood. Watching these men tell their stories and seeing them relive those times etched on their faces hits hard and always makes me cry. Most of the were just young men forced to grow up overnight.

Soy boy

Many take for granted these days

Also the price paid for the rich man war mongers Paid by the poor man's blood

Yes and we are on the verge of loosing it today. Our government has turned on its own population and have become enemies from within. We can let what these young men fought for just be ruined by criminal politicians.

THE PAIN OF TALKING TO YOUR FRIEND ONE MOMENT AND IN A SPLIT SECOND HE IS NO LONGER WITH YOU, EVER!!! IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANYONE TO BE NORMAL AGAIN AFTER THAT EMOTIONAL TRAUMA, ESPECIALLY IF YOU GUYS WERE LIKE BROTHERS!!😔

@@Plainsimple67 fr lots of people don’t understand how tragic just them being gone in general is because less and less kids are playing team sports but dude iv always wondered if me and my team went to war I couldnt deal with seeing any of them dying it’d send me into a state of delirium or a state of black out rage

@@Pokelemon3434 ABSOLUTELY, LOSING FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES, IS MORE DESTRUCTIVE EMOTIONALLY TO THE ONES LEFT BEHIND AND WORST, WITNESSING THEIR DEATHS!!

Relax with the caps lock buddy

@@webcamthemesongs WHY??!! IT'S JUST CAPS BUDDY, THAT'S ALL!!🤷‍♂️

its not about country its about human life and the things you do for that life

tbh the outcome of WWII is what ruined the world including america...but it's not the fault of men like these who served their country to their knowledge and ability.

@ThatOneGuy if you look around the modern west and see something good and healthy then you are not on the same page as I am. WWII was one of the biggest crossroads in shaping the modern west.

@@levitatingoctahedron922 funny how the neo fash run around spilling their garbage with anime profiles, not being aware of how the modern West is the entire reason they're able to publicly yearn for its downfall in the first place.

All that greatness is being trampled on daily, unfortunately.

@@cylersmiley5259 what do you mean it wasn’t too horrible? WW2 was a brutal, violent and death ridden war (more so than any others) that not one of us could ever imagine.

Cyler Easily said from the comfort of your parent's basement.

@@cylersmiley5259 you would have been there when the first shot was fired, and back home in your bed when the second shot got fired. What a stupid comment.

@@cylersmiley5259 many didn’t volunteer they were drafted. And didn’t have any choice at that point. If you volunteered you had the choice of which services/branch you would like to join. Draftees didn’t get that choice and mainly went to marines or army infantry. So if u preemptively joined you could pick a branch of service that didn’t have a terribly high death rate. The perks of volunteering I suppose

@@cunnycam he wouldn’t have been able to pass basic training or not even physically qualified

Evil is still among us this is what pisses me off

@@giovonne we wouldn’t even know the difference between good and evil without men like this

Then souvenirs were spooky though

There was no evil. You’re missing the point of what he’s saying. They were all just kids sent off to war and told to kill eachother

@@guccimalcs The Nazis and the Imperial Army were evil😂

Remember, a voice saved his life. 6:09

I’ve watched a lot of these. This guy ranks in the top 5 for honesty and telling it like it was. Not pulling any punches. Tremendous respect for this man.

@@DirtRoadAutoRepair I also appreciated his acknowledgement of the humanity of the enemy soldiers he killed. Many, especially those who fought in the Pacific, were never able to come to that point later in life.

@@jimcronin2043 absolutely agree with you. Also the part he admits to shooting a woman. Most guys would never admit that even if it was a justified shot.

Totally true Jim, please don't forget to subscribe for more WWII veteran interviews. It would be great if you could also write Mr. Gosch a Thank You for Your Service/ Happy Birthday Letter. It would mean A LOT to him Please send to: Remember WWII C/O William Gosch P.O. Box 245 Collierville, TN 38027

@@RememberWW2 that is so cool that you accept letters for these guys. I bet that means more to them than just about anything else could.

Where did you find this ? I'm a history student and we are currently working in WW2, especially the pacific theater.

@@gabrielillescas oh man I read it a while it was about imperial Japanese veterans in the pacific theatre and he felt horrible that he took many young men’s lives it was an online site it had history and many biography’s on Japanese soldier it was this Japanese website I just watched it in English sub

@@rafaeldoespiritosanto8440 Obrigado. Queria achar alguém relato de veteranos do lado do Japão, porém é bem difícil de encontrar online. A grande parte desses relatos é dos norte-americanos. Mas mesmo assim obrigado.

@@gabrielillescas sem problemas amigo

RIP GOD forgives too

We certainly doAnd we owe our lives and freedom to all the veterans from all the services in any conflict that this country has been involved in.

My dad was from upstate NY, and an engineer in the 27th, also landed on Saipan in 44’ , wounded by mortar at the airfield, Purple Heart . He NEVER went to a beach the rest of his life and would never talk about the war much when we were kids

@@johndavis9432 eh not all conflicts are freedom related. I get what you’re saying though. They deserve their respect for sure.

@@jamesy4003 North Tonawanda, New York, my Uncle Army Air Corps/Air Force Major Albert Kantor flew B-17s in the war

There's no doubt that the Japanese would have invaded the US mainland if they hadn't been stopped in the Pacific. I doubt the Iraqis would have, though.

I am a Vietnam vet and whenever I see Iraqi or Afghanistan vets I shake their hands and tell them we all get our useless wars

@Robert Boiteau you were there so big industry's could profit. Also for poppys for drugs

This is causing me great pain to watch and listen to.My grandfather and 4 of his brothers fought in ww2..One of my uncles lost his life in Pearl Harbor before the war started..I ended up in Afghanistan in 2002 for the first time.....I enlisted in the Army a few days after I turned 18,my bday is August 19th,the Towers fell 3 weeks after I enlisted..Anyway I'm now 38 and I have seen combat in Afghanistan 3 times and have done numerous other things as an Army Ranger...I have night mares over it.Afghanistan in my opinion now that I'm older was over money.I regret ever joining the Army.Had I known what the leaders of this country and the world were going to pull 3 weeks later and known about it what I know today I'd NEVER have enlisted.I have been forgiven by many innocent people over there.I've been told personally that they forgive me.What would you think if you lived in a village back in 2002 without wide spread cellphone and internet access or really any type of world news and a plane flew over and dropped a bomb on everything you know because some idiot with an rpg is holing up in your home that is out by a rural mountain?You'd call Americans Devils too.I went back because in my mind I needed closure for the things I had to do in my earlier years.I have to live with those choices I made.And I will.But,I know exactly where this man is coming from and how he feels...Thankyou for your service Sir.Your life truly was a real sacrifice.It served a true meaning.Unlike the wars that followed.And unlike all of the bs wool that the government pulled over Americans heads during and after WW2.

@@krazzykracker2564 You're correct about the poppys.I didn't read these comments until after I wrote mine.We(Americans) guarded those fields night and day for years. Now I build cars,I own a shop and it's therapeutic to me.It helps ease my stress level.It helps me live with the choices I've made.

Small world. Mine too. He was in the Royal Engineers. Went back in on D-DAY. Went in as a boy soldier came out as a captain. Legend. Lest we forget. 🦘🇦🇺👍

Totally true Patrick, please don't forget to subscribe for more WWII veteran interviews. It would be great if you could also write Mr. Gosch a Thank You for Your Service/ Happy Birthday Letter. It would mean A LOT to him Please send to: Remember WWII C/O William Gosch P.O. Box 245 Collierville, TN 38027

@@RememberWW2 when was his birthday? I’d love to send a letter

So give him everything you have.

@@itsxercc your a coward

That’s why they’re called the greatest generation

yes, yes they did. and the sad fact is most people under 25 don’t even know when ww2 started and ended, much less the unbelievable horrors those soldiers endured in battles like Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guadalcanal and the countless others in both the pacific theatre and European theatre. history must be preserved and protected otherwise we are all but doomed to repeat it

@@rella.3505 I understand and agree. Young people are obsessed with the pathetic music they listen to that sings about violence and killing people. Doing drugs, gangs, so I think the younger generation is completely cut off from reality. The older generation has struggled much more then the soft weak people of today who are brainless.

Did they? Do you think they’d be proud of what the world is today? Do you think if they knew the world would be the way it is, they wouldn’t have fought the wrong enemy? General Patton himself said we fought the wrong side.

@@guccimalcs you're not a combat veteran what could you think you possibly understand. Absolutely nothing and a lame quote by Patton? Patton said many things. He also was a racist...

Totally true Jerome, please don't forget to subscribe for more WWII veteran interviews. It would be great if you could also write Mr. Gosch a Thank You for Your Service/ Happy Birthday Letter. It would mean A LOT to him Please send to: Remember WWII C/O William Gosch P.O. Box 245 Collierville, TN 38027

You got that right....

Well, new problems arise during times of peace. Just be grateful that we aren't in WW3 and that your sons and daughters aren't being turned into swiss cheese by bullets.

This comment is so so true

@jerome. So very very true. People today in the USA especially in urban and suburban neighborhoods are so petty.

Much respect to your mom, my father was a combat corpsman on Siapan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa

@@wileecoyote5929 who knows they could’ve had stories in common❤️ God bless your father service too 🙏

They did save the world

I feel sorry for the ones here today who see what they fought for. With the whole gender hlsteria. Not to mention losing our industry in the USA to China. Wages going down. Its going bad.

I'm sorry my bro but the world never were saved, if that were the case there should have been peace in the rest of the 20th century but that was not the case, there were many wars and deaths.

@@GuyFromTheSouth Imagine those Japs making it to the US mainland doing what they did to POW and Asian countries. These men are goddamn super heroes. God bless them.

Was he a racist tho?

You have a mangina

@@zazasnruntz7505 who are you talking about?

My grandpa killed many nazis.

The idea that people have to go through shit like this to become real men is the kind of toxic idea that will lead us down this road again

@@M1nd_Fl4y3r Its how the world was since very recent years. Life in general was horrible compared to today's standards, men and women were much tougher, a different breed. Doesn't mean we should strive to torment ourselves with similar experiences, but respect those who had to go through it for the easy lives we have today.

@@JuniorJuni070 that won‘t trigger any German person nowadays. And the ones who are triggered by it should meet your grandpa.

@@M1nd_Fl4y3r He didn't have to go through it to become a "real man." He was a real man before, during and after.

so god saved him and not the guy next to him? or the other marines? why is god so picky?

@@hayleyandkilo why dont you ask him?

You can't Question your creator because he does what he wants. Because that's like a art painting asking the artist why did you paint me like this.

@@BrandonSmith-ie3ks i guess helping babies not get killed by their crackead mothers is not on his to do list thanks for the help god

@@mattdg1981 he hasnt responded to my texts,

It’s a shame so many of their stories couldn’t be shared until relatively recently.

I think a real long movie/series needs to be made. It could be called "They Shall Never Grow Old 2" or something. If you haven't heard of " They Shall Never Grow Old" then i think you guys need to look it up. What ww1 footage survived was colorized and made into a movie not too long ago

@@lilredwagon5311 I have heard of that movie. It is very good. But I would call it "You Know Those People Who Never Grow Old? Well, Their Children Shall Never Grow Old Too. In Fact No Gets Old Because of All This Gluten-Free Shit So It's Not That Impressive As Their Parents Never Growing Old"

@@maxazzopardi7446 oh boy ..

My grandpa is 97 and was one of the first to step foot in Nagasaki after the bombs. Real heroes dude

I live about an hour south. I use to live in NT

I’m also a veteran

Wow really? Crazy, everybody is on KZfaq nowadays

Were u able to get ahold of him?

Respect to your family as well.

I hope you are doing well and if you have children I hope they are grateful to have a loving father!

Damn you've got videos of Wwe 2011 right before I officially stopped watching. Good times.

@@FaizCaliph yep. Lifetime fan. The rammstein I posted is solid as well, ha.

@@joshx022 I will always be a fan of WWF/WWE, but I just can't watch a full show like I used to back in the day. Can't forget such fond memories.

When he said they were having a gunfight at 50-75 feet i almost crapped my pants can you imagine CQB with a BAR? That guns huge

@@MitchJohnson0110 Yep, just like in NAM the average firefight was 20-30 yards. Dudes shooting M60’s, M16s, AKs and RPG’s at each other is freaking nuts. Thats so close!

I was stationed there in the early 90's, not as much to see then as what you saw but there was still some reminders of the war. Some of the same things you saw just not as many. I had an Uncle that was in the Army Air Corps he was in WW2 and in Korea said he never got close to being hurt, he did 2 tours in Vietnam and was wounded both tours, the second wounds ended his 30 year career. I was very young and we lived in Florida at the time and I ask dad one time why my uncle never wore shorts because it was so hot and dad told me he had something wrong with his legs and being young I left it at that. When I became a Marine, one of my other uncle's told me about my uncle being wounded and how it happened. He was one hell of a man. RIP Uncle and to all the brave men and women that have given their lives for our great country. Semper Fi from an old Marine.

@@jerrygirdner2753 Amazing! Thanks for telling me about that. There was quite a bit left when I was there. Even a large artillery piece up on top of a hill on base. One shot up bunker with the projectiles still in the concrete (probably 50 cal) was right behind our barracks. Myself and a friend use to explore the overgrown areas on base and find the bunkers.

I was stationed on Okinawa in 1995 at Camps Kinser and Foster. Driving past and through those steep hills I was and still amazed at what our veterans had to climb while enduring gunfire, mortars, artillery, grenades. In the 1990s civilian construction companies were still finding unexploded ordinance in the ground. My mom's older brother was 17 and on a destroyer off of Okinawa fighting the kamikazes, he only told me a story about one attack, one time only. He never spoke about the war again.

I was down at Kinser in 86.

Kadena AFB 71-73. Wasn't a tree over ten feet on the south end of the island.

Appreciate your sentiments snd testament. Have very similar stories with both my grandfathers and family members. Hats off from a fellow Texan sir. May god bless you and your family.

It doesn’t matter to him due to the fact there was a lost worse coming back to him then the name of a ship or how far he ran.

The details do not matter, the entirety of the situation is what matters, and he understands that fact perfectly. When you are involved in something so large and so life altering, as time goes on the picture gets smaller and the things that truly matter become fewer.

Okay, you both missed the point entirely... I was attempting to simply honor the man. Of course every detail isn't "significant" to Mr. Gosch in retelling his story , but every word this man has to say should be and is significant to all of us

@@mikemanning5918 … I did not miss the point at all. I was shedding light on his thought process as someone who has been in similar situations. If you asked him directly he would agree that minor details that were major at the time are insignificant years later. I get that you are honoring him as we all should, I simply shared my understanding of where he is coming from in terms of the greater picture. Many of us felt his words when he said “it doesn’t matter”.

@@mikemanning5918 no, no I didn’t. Coming from a long line a vets they wouldn’t care at this day an age about minor details. Hell my grandfather wouldn’t even speak about Vietnam. I had to read about him in a book.