Our daughter was asking if we had any close members of the family who’d served. My dad in WWII, of course.
Richard mentioned some in his family.
I told her there was a member of the family (I’d have to check with Mom to make sure I got the right name) who had served in WW1: as a pilot.
She did a double take. Oh. A lot of those did not do well.
He did not.
My grandmother wrote her autobiography when I was ten years old, and the story she told about an officer talking to her son in the Army–was Richard’s great uncle.