07-17-2014, 11:34 PM
I just read the two and yes, it was a very sad story for the Richmans. As I read the other I thought, "It must have been an interesting time after the war, when so many of the men's bios had stories such as Captain Phillips. I suppose it sort of parallels now with so many people having been to Iraq and Afghanistan (often several times) in their bios. I guess you never think of your own contemporaries in that sort of awe - just as the WWII generation didn't. I suppose they talked about the admiration they had for the vets from WWI or the Banana Wars. Of course having Grand-pa in the Civil War was probably pretty neat, too!