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The first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan pretty much said it all about the old vets with their hats didn't it?

I go every few years to tour the US aircraft carrier Hornet in Alameda near San Francisco. A couple times there was a docent there named Ralph who was a tail gunner in an SBD (US dive bomber) who participated in The Battle of Midway. Part of his left index finger was shot off in the battle and was missing. It's easy to forget these guys were maybe 18 or 19 when they fought that war. And yes, baddasses doesn't begin to describe it.
 
Irony - the most far-reaching decisions one makes in their lives, that has the most long term effects - comes at a time they are the least capable of making them.
 

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