Agree Gato.

My best friends father fought in WWII and was at the Battle of the Bulge, but he never said anything about it. I knew he was in the National Guard, but until his obituary came out in 1984, I never knew that he was in one of the deadliest battles and even his sons weren't told much. He said to one of them that he had lost a lot of friends and wanted to leave it at that.