Thursday, December 18, 2014

What to Tell the Grandkids?

     Jakob called me on November 11th with a "Happy Veteran's Day".  Nice of him to do so even though his Dad was standing alongside prodding him on.  Uf dah, it's not easy saying a simple thank you when there so many conflicting thoughts running through your head.
     What can I say?  The war sucked?  I didn't really want to be there?  It was an ugly war that should never have been fought?  Can't say I'd have understood such ideas back when I was eight.
     Whatever I did say probably reflected my jumbled mind.  A little stammering, a stutter or two, then a  simple thank you.  Before I die I'll have to have a heart to heart with all my grandchildren.  Let them know what the war in Vietnam was like from a grunt's point of view.  Doubt very much their high school history classes will get it right.