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Originally posted by KSigkid
I've actually talked to my parents about this last night, and they seemed to confirm that. My dad said that when he talked to the guys in his unit when they came back to the U.S., he heard similar stories of families selling/giving away their children's possessions. There was just a large assumption that their kids weren't coming home.
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I'm sure my parents would say the same thing if I asked them. Maybe our grandparents' generation, who had to deal with a similar thing during WWII, would probably say the same thing. Today, it seems like young enlistees--and their parents--just aren't prepared in the same way for deployments in war or peace. I wish everyone could have heard my stupid aunt hem and haw because my cousin was sent to Korea on a remote for a year.
Regretfully, my father and I don't really talk about the time he spent in Southeast Asia (we've talked about it in great detail, but only a handful of times).