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Originally Posted by Onthefield
I love the times that i bump into a vet in a mcdonald's on a road trip or walking through some random store with my wife. Walking up to those men unexpectedly and just thanking them and asking where they served is an honor and of course their autographs!
Those are the stories that are my treasures! Especially when they lead to a possible friendship from a 70 year old man to a 21 year old. It is really a great thing when something like that happens.
Man, it makes my mind boggle to think of someone trying to "steal" someone else's story who had actually been there. Very unfortunate.
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Indeed. One man I had met claimed to have been at Pearl Harbor during the attack with the Navy. He was in the Navy all right. However, I was able to get some records and turns out, he was never at Pearl, never stationed, never visited. Made me sad that someone would want to claim to be something they weren't.
But as you said, nothing is more amazing than to listen to stories of the veterans of WWII. I will always consider them the greatest generation. No one compares.