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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 2364166" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>I'd read <em>To Hell and Back</em> years ago, and I just recently listened to the unabridged audiobook. It's surprising (though I guess it shouldn't be) how dark the book is in comparison to the movie, and it certainly explains his problems with PTSD later in life. That little Texican done some sh*t in the ETO.</p><p></p><p>My grandfather got his CIB in Europe, and a Bronze Star and Purple Heart to go with it, but I don't know if he saw combat during the Bulge. He didn't talk about combat 'til after my grandmother passed, and it haunted him 'til he died. When he did talk about it, he said when he was shooting Germans, he visualized shooting squirrels jumping from tree to tree back home near Cleveland (on land that's now mostly under Keystone). He said the one he didn't get was the one that got the tank he was riding on, and while he was laying in the ditch afterward, a Captain told him he was going to recommend him for the Silver Star, "but it must've gotten tarnished on the way."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 2364166, member: 26737"] I'd read [I]To Hell and Back[/I] years ago, and I just recently listened to the unabridged audiobook. It's surprising (though I guess it shouldn't be) how dark the book is in comparison to the movie, and it certainly explains his problems with PTSD later in life. That little Texican done some sh*t in the ETO. My grandfather got his CIB in Europe, and a Bronze Star and Purple Heart to go with it, but I don't know if he saw combat during the Bulge. He didn't talk about combat 'til after my grandmother passed, and it haunted him 'til he died. When he did talk about it, he said when he was shooting Germans, he visualized shooting squirrels jumping from tree to tree back home near Cleveland (on land that's now mostly under Keystone). He said the one he didn't get was the one that got the tank he was riding on, and while he was laying in the ditch afterward, a Captain told him he was going to recommend him for the Silver Star, "but it must've gotten tarnished on the way." [/QUOTE]
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