I know my response is long but it made me remember.
Abbout 14 years ago I had a part time Job working at the V.A. hospital physical theripy dept. and I saw the actual cost of our freedom from WW 1 and up I heard the storries that some preaty boy actor movie cannot come close to. One of the vets I worked with Victor served in the U.S. Navy in WW 1 and WW 2. He earned his way up through the ranks and by the time he retired he spent several years in a verry high rank. As he put it me once the only person higher in rank than him when he walked onto a vessle was God Im sorry I dont recall his actual rank.
Unfortunately most of our WW 2 veterans are dead but I will never forget what I heard some of these men endured, saw and done so graphic I cannot even concive in my mind not to mention repeat here so you and I can speak the english language and have the freedoms that get taken for granted, forgotten, and trampled on. I guarentee you that if our politicians respected our vets and fought a war like we did then we would not be in the Middle East twelve years later.
Thats All.
Bob Wolf