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Appreciate your efforts. What doesn't seem all that important now will be greatly appreciated a generation or two down the pike. I have a brother-in-law who participated in the Phillipines mop-up. Brought home a few souvenirs. Other than that, the extended family knows absolutely nothing about his experience. I've been prodding him to write down some stuff (primarily to add provenance and value to his souvenirs and make them more valuable to my sister who will certainly survive him) so his several children and grandchildren will have a tangible, personal exposure to WWII. (Well, I'd like to hear a little about it as well.)
Have now watched for the second time a presentation on CSpan2 (book tv -- audible groan) by an author named (approximately) Wukovitz. He's an eight-grade teacher and he talks of the reluctance of veterans to tell their stories. One in particular told his children and grandchildren nothing of his experience because "no one really cares." So this author told that story to his eighth graders and asked for a written response. Some of the responses would have made your throat tighten up, if not actually sent you for a tissue. One particular response (major paraphrase here) was a young lady who said something like "I should live to realize my dreams and, in doing so, they will be realizing theirs." Most said something like "how can you say I don't care when I didn't know anything about it?" Tell the story.