RE: Mom's Rehab and her roommate.
August 6, 2016 at 1:28 am
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2016 at 1:29 am by SteelCurtain.)
(August 6, 2016 at 12:58 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: My ex-wife's grandpa was a gunner on I don't remember which ship. He didn't mind talking about it either. I have to wonder if there's a difference between Army and Navy experience? Conceptually, there's a difference between shooting down a vessel or aircraft vs. starting down the sights at another human being?
I would imagine so. Naval Warfare was brutal in WWII, but it was brutal for different reasons. Fear mainly. You could run over a mine or get hit by a torpedo or enter into an engagement at any minute. Marines in the Pacific Theater and the Army on the European Eastern front was another planet for brutality. Got worse in some places in Vietnam. Carnage is something that can never be prepared for. There's a reason we don't do warfare like that anymore.
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