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Originally Posted by KurtG85
My grandfather was a field medic serving under patton in the battle of the bulge. He didn't talk much about it because he was a long time medic in Korea as well and just saw way too much action but one time when he was drinking he told the story of how he and about 200 guys were camped at night and were ambushed. Enemy slit the throats or gunned down at close range every guy except for him and one other dude. Don't remember if that occured in Korea or WW2, probably korea.
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Wow. Talk about blessed and cursed at the same time. I feel so badly for vets that happened to view stuff like that, that of course have a hard time getting over it. My father was lucky in the fact that he didn't see as much action, but was more involded with administrative tasks. He was still a war vet, but at least had the chance to live the rest of his life without having visions.
I was in the Navy and the purple heart winners are all in the barraks, all dead, and all medics from what I saw. Great heros!