Sounds like a cool guy. That sweet n sour tattoo made me lose a lot of respect for him though lol jkjkjk.

Almost all of my great uncles died in ww2. The one who came back was leading a platoon when he came across a German brigade in 1945. He fibbed and said there was a whole tank division right behind him. The German officer surrendered his men, and gave my great uncle his pistol (a luger) as an affirmation of this. He lost the gun when he went back home in the states, and hates himself for it to this day.

I remember some stories... of my grandfather both in WW1 & WW2 during the Prussians have occupied us. My family were just basic farmers, nothing more than that.

My grandfather was abducted to Germany and forced to work there in around 1942. They needed some Belgians to work in the coal mines near Dusseldorf. Actually in constrast to elsewhere in Germany he got treated pretty nicely by the locals. Sometimes his bosses threw fruit at him when they saw hem working in misery.

At the end of World war 2 his stage ended and he was returning home. Sadly enough the British bombed some train stations in that area which made it impossible for him to return by train. He was being left out alone to go to Belgium with his own feet and knocking on doors where he passed to ask for food. He walked for more than 150km when he safely returned to the hometown. He had some horrible memories about that trip.

I have 3 ancestors, which fought in World War 2. My great-granduncle was a Luftwaffe officer and got shot over Upper Normandy. My paternal great-grandfathers both fought in the German Africa Korps. One of them survived the war after getting in Allied captivity in 1942. He always told that he and his comrades got treated very nice - at least by the Americans. However, during the passage to Britain he had to watch Polish guards torturing Italian prisoners and the British crew didn't cared, although the entire ship heard the cries. He was glad that he didn't had to fight on the Russian front, otherwise he probably would've seen much larger sorrow.

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My great-great(x) grandfather was Charlemagne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNE_1XvJo6g&feature=youtu.be

A Great Uncle of mine fought in Vietnam. Several others have served during wartime but in peaceful areas like Germany during the Korean war.

Me dad was stationed as a mechanic in cold war East Germany

My ancestors were rulers of a city state near the modern capital of U.P india fought the British In Indian war of independence 1857 and it ended up bad lost everything shifted to small village but now good time is back

my son fought against the roman in carthage

As a kid, my father together with our family's chronicler tought me what was our coat of arms, what it meant and gave me a paper with our family tree to 13th generation back. Would take to long to discuss. :)

I wonder how many people even care about their families' past at all nowadays..

My Great-Grandfather fought in WWII, was taken as a prisoner of war, but survived. My Great-Great-Uncle also fought in WWII, but he died on the frontlines. My Grandfather fought in the Algerian War, and survived. Much further back in my family's history, my great(X-something) grandparents fought in the Scottish Campbell-MacDonald Clan Wars (A minor civil war in Scotland a few hundred years ago, when Clans were still important).

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