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Most likely there was a huge difference in that regard in navy vs army...
by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Most likely there was a huge difference in that regard in navy vs army...
- jonmrodriguez 12y agoI'm guessing that the reason this was downvoted was that I communicated poorly. Here is a better wording of what I was trying to say: In the Navy you sink a ship from far away. It's more abstract; you don't see the enemy up close. In the Army you fight battles face to face with the enemy, and it must be correspondingly more horrible. So I would guess that Navy people (like my grandpa) had a generally more positive memory of the war than Army people.
- arethuza 12y agoI don't know - naval warfare in WW2 could be pretty grim. I can recommend Nicholas Monsarrat's "Three Corvettes" on his wartime naval experiences - I happened to buy this without knowing much about the book in Heathrow before a flight over the North Atlantic to the US. One of the relatively small number of books that has moved me to tears. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Monsarrat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Monsarrat He also wrote the novel "The Cruel Sea" which was made into one of the best naval war movies of WW2.
- luckyno13 12y agoIt could be because pretty much all branches have ground deploy-able forces so it isn't necessarily true that they aren't exposed to the horrors of war on a person to person level.