Have you ever asked your relatives about their wartime experience?

Ten years ago, I got to know my grandmother's younger cousin who was around 75 years old. One night we were drinking vodka and he was talking about his military service. I asked him if he served during wartime, and his reply was "Yeah, but I never got to see any action."

The way he said "any action" almost had a tinge of regret in it. Amazing what differences you can find between his generation's and the baby boomers' attitude toward war.

I don't mind quality threads being over here at the sandbox. It's kind of like in Contact where Gary Busey's son blows up the big space thing, but there's a spare one for Jodie Foster over in Asia.

there's that, but most of the traffic has returned to ilx proper, so i figured i would crosspost it.