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[QUOTE="BillSU, post: 4683954, member: 6809"]
War is terrible. It does things to you, you can never forget if you're lucky not to be killed.

My Uncle Al was on the carrier Enterprise in the Pacific.

His job with others was get planes, F4U Corsairs, ready and bring them up to the deck on the huge elevator. He had just returned below after delivering a plane, stepped off the elevator when a bomb hit right behind him.

He was thrown across the second storage deck where the planes were kept but his injuries were minor.

But, when we used to visit he and my aunt in what they then called Victory Gardens, housing built all across the country for returning veterans, my cousin Gary used to tell me when there was a thunderstorm they could not find him. He would go into a closet and stay there until after the storm had passed.

It took several years for him to get over the fear of what I must imagine was a deafening blast. He never mentioned anything to anyone except my aunt about his overall war experience.
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