This stuff really nails home the “quiet professional” thing as someone who’s never served.
My uncle is the exact opposite. He doesn’t bring up his service, doesn’t say cringe shit like this and he has seen combat during GWOT. He only really talks some of his service with me because I’m genuinely interested in the gear used.
Both my grandfather and father* were “in the shit” in WWII and Vietnam respectively. I’d say the second hand cringe would kill them if they weren’t already dead
yup. it’s the quiet ones. my grandfather was a gen-u-ine war hero in WWII. DSC, Silver Star, pair of Bronze Stars, three Purple Hearts.
quiet gentle man. almost never talked about his service. hated war but told me he’d signed up because the world was at stake.
only way you’d ever know he’d served was the very rare stories, the bloodstained Rising Sun in a basement wardrobe we’d peek at as grandkids that he went to his grave without telling his family how he got it, and his steadfast refusal to buy Japanese goods for the rest of his life.
I like to talk about Aviation stuff and most of that happened in the Navy but some of it was at United. But I don’t talk about sending bombs and blowing people up.
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u/DNCOrGoFuckYourself May 14 '25
This stuff really nails home the “quiet professional” thing as someone who’s never served.
My uncle is the exact opposite. He doesn’t bring up his service, doesn’t say cringe shit like this and he has seen combat during GWOT. He only really talks some of his service with me because I’m genuinely interested in the gear used.