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There wasn't much to tell to my family my father my brother my brother in law and myself we we're all in the military at the same time ARMY.

Details of my injuries.

Where do I start? How do you explain a bad dream. You'll just be disappointed. They will not understand. WWII vets didn't share much.

I could never really tell them details about what I did, due to OPSEC... I just couldn't... it is stuff they did not need to hear about... I just told them I specialize in transportation and logistics...

My pride! I enlisted in 1976, no one in my family could understand how proud I was to serve.

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I found it difficult to make people understand that even in a war zone there is boring down time.

When I was deploying to war, and when I was in Iraq, I wasn't able to give dates as to when I was going someplace within the country, amd I wasn't able to tell them where I was because the phones were being monitored.

The fact that I didn't mind being deployed overseas. I was trained to do a job, and here I was, actually doing it. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed being part of a team; something larger than just myself. It's just something that can't be explained; only experienced.