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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 1355649, member: 36"](LOL) Typical kids ... with the addition of being shot at. Guys back then were sometimes told not to talk about what they were doing during the War. A friend of mine, who died of old age, said he'd been in uniform but I didn't find out he'd been an Army Intelligence officer until reading his obituary. He must have been handling Classified or higher information and couldn't talk about it, and later was just in the habit. </p><p><br /></p><p>My dad was EOD during the Korean war, but never shipped out. He never said much about the things he handled, except the times he was cleaning up after someone else's whoopsie. (Like dropping a bomb onto a reviewing stand that fortunately didn't go off. Wrong fuse.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 1355649, member: 36"](LOL) Typical kids ... with the addition of being shot at. Guys back then were sometimes told not to talk about what they were doing during the War. A friend of mine, who died of old age, said he'd been in uniform but I didn't find out he'd been an Army Intelligence officer until reading his obituary. He must have been handling Classified or higher information and couldn't talk about it, and later was just in the habit. My dad was EOD during the Korean war, but never shipped out. He never said much about the things he handled, except the times he was cleaning up after someone else's whoopsie. (Like dropping a bomb onto a reviewing stand that fortunately didn't go off. Wrong fuse.)[/QUOTE]
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