So, I am halfway retired......I only work 3 days a week now.
I live alone, and TV sucks, so I have gotten addicted to Netflix.
For the last weeks I have been spending a lot of time on Netflix, and watching mostly WWII documentaries.
There is a wealth of stuff out there, and a lot of interviews with the actual people that lived it.
I wish we could make the kids in school today watch every damn one of them.....maybe it would open there eyes about the realities of life.
And God knows, these kids today could sure do with a dose of reality.
And then, I am also getting a dose of reality....
My Dad served in WWII as a Navigator on B-17's with the 100th Bomb Group, and retired from the Air Force in 1962. He never talked about what happened back then.
I wish he would have......maybe I would have had more respect from him.
He raised five kids, and all five of us served in the Military during the Vietnam Era.
Three of as served in Vietnam, and between the three of us we had 6 tours.
We tried to earn his respect for that, but we we never really got it........
My older brother went so far as to do 3 tours in Vietnam, trying to earn my Dads respect. After his second tour, he received a Combat Commission, and went back again and earned
a Distinguished Service Cross as a LT in Cambodia in 1970!
I did two tours myself......hoping that my Dad would finally tell me he was proud of me.
My older brother talked many hours.....bitter that we did not get any respect.
I remember coming home and trying to join my Dad's VFW.....and they said I "didn't fight in a real war."
And watching these documentaries on Netflix now, I understand why.
My war in Vietnam wasn't shit compared to what my Dad and his generation did!
And only now, watching these documentaries, can I understand what my Dad and his generation did.
If I could only have seen these documentaries when I was a kid......I would have told my Dad how much I was proud of him!
And maybe he might have told me he was proud of me...
But now it is too late.....................
I live alone, and TV sucks, so I have gotten addicted to Netflix.
For the last weeks I have been spending a lot of time on Netflix, and watching mostly WWII documentaries.
There is a wealth of stuff out there, and a lot of interviews with the actual people that lived it.
I wish we could make the kids in school today watch every damn one of them.....maybe it would open there eyes about the realities of life.
And God knows, these kids today could sure do with a dose of reality.
And then, I am also getting a dose of reality....
My Dad served in WWII as a Navigator on B-17's with the 100th Bomb Group, and retired from the Air Force in 1962. He never talked about what happened back then.
I wish he would have......maybe I would have had more respect from him.
He raised five kids, and all five of us served in the Military during the Vietnam Era.
Three of as served in Vietnam, and between the three of us we had 6 tours.
We tried to earn his respect for that, but we we never really got it........
My older brother went so far as to do 3 tours in Vietnam, trying to earn my Dads respect. After his second tour, he received a Combat Commission, and went back again and earned
a Distinguished Service Cross as a LT in Cambodia in 1970!
I did two tours myself......hoping that my Dad would finally tell me he was proud of me.
My older brother talked many hours.....bitter that we did not get any respect.
I remember coming home and trying to join my Dad's VFW.....and they said I "didn't fight in a real war."
And watching these documentaries on Netflix now, I understand why.
My war in Vietnam wasn't shit compared to what my Dad and his generation did!
And only now, watching these documentaries, can I understand what my Dad and his generation did.
If I could only have seen these documentaries when I was a kid......I would have told my Dad how much I was proud of him!
And maybe he might have told me he was proud of me...
But now it is too late.....................
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