Lt. Col. Selber asks us to initiate conversations with veterans of the recent wars. I would happily do so, but I remember the warnings I received as a boy in the 1950s, to be very careful about asking WWII veterans about their war experiences. Every adult man I knew as a boy was a veteran, including my father. When I noticed Marine Corps…
Lt. Col. Selber asks us to initiate conversations with veterans of the recent wars. I would happily do so, but I remember the warnings I received as a boy in the 1950s, to be very careful about asking WWII veterans about their war experiences. Every adult man I knew as a boy was a veteran, including my father. When I noticed Marine Corps memorabilia in a friend's house, he gave me a stern warning not to ask his father about it. My son-in-law is a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, but I hesitate to to bring up his deployments. I worry that it might provoke fearful thoughts and memories in one who has already suffered enough.
Lt. Col. Selber asks us to initiate conversations with veterans of the recent wars. I would happily do so, but I remember the warnings I received as a boy in the 1950s, to be very careful about asking WWII veterans about their war experiences. Every adult man I knew as a boy was a veteran, including my father. When I noticed Marine Corps memorabilia in a friend's house, he gave me a stern warning not to ask his father about it. My son-in-law is a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, but I hesitate to to bring up his deployments. I worry that it might provoke fearful thoughts and memories in one who has already suffered enough.