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Those few who did seemed to do it more as a courtesy rather than because they had any real interest, and they seemed bored if I got into details. The questions more often asked were more indirect like: Did you ever see Patton? Did you see the concentration camps? What was Paris like? Are you glad to be home? To really tell what I did in the service would have taken hours to relate. I found the civilians and even my closest friends, including many veterans, were not even interested in a shorter version or a few of the highlights. It did not bother me they showed so little interest, but it was not what I expected. |
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