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Nice knowing what others around the world refer to their version of Memorial Day. I spent mine with my ailing father, an Army dentist and veteran himself.
Although there were probably more, the only family member I concretely know of dying as a soldier in war is my grand-uncle Rudi. He was run over by a truck filled with retreating soldiers that wouldn't or couldn't stop for him, in the last days of World War 2. I know of that because I asked my grandpa who was the man in the picture. Don't know if Rudi would, should, or would even want to be considered a "fallen hero". Hurrah for willing or unwilling dead guys in wars anyway, I guess.