Yeah, I remember after my grandfather died, I felt a lot of the same things about his World War I service. When the US didn't go into the war right away, he and his older brother went to Canada and lied about their ages to get into the Canadian army. He was 14 and his brother was 16. (And my parents wonder why my brother was so wild??? He inherited it :) ) He told us one time he went over on the same ship with Billy Bishop the Canadian flying ace, but my mother says he made that part up. I never thought to ask him about it. I never thought to ask him about what made him stay in Europe for several years after the war, or what happened that made him hate Italians so much (he had a barbershop beside the Spanish Steps in Rome).

Too late to brood about it now. But still.

--bonnie