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Some veterans want to talk about their experience -- some just want to forget and move on -- sometimes that's for their own good, I think.
My late uncle (Dad's brother) didn't talk much about his experiences, but after a few beers on day told me the story of how he won the Bronze Star.
He was a corporal in the Infantry in France during WWII. They had converted an anti-aircraft gun into basically a big anti-personal machine gun. One night, a couple of men who were manning the piece were killed and they asked for volunteers to replace them.
My uncle and another guy volunteered and were sitting on the gun in the middle of the night when they heard German speaking voices in the hedge rows and saw some German soldiers coming out of a tree line. He turned to the other volunteer and asked if he knew how to fire the weapon. The other guy said no, he thought my uncle did.
They couldn't figure out how to fire.
The Germans looked around and then went back into the trees and never came back again. My uncle figures that if they had fired the gun, they would have been killed.
An interesting way to win a Bronze Star.
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