My father retired from the Air Force (was stationed in Thailand during the
Korean War).  My brother retired from the Air Force.  My husband was Navy.
My paternal uncle was Army.

My maternal grandfather served in the military during WWII - he was
conscipted into the Nazi Army - until he was injured... then he went to work
for the local power company... and his boss kept him out of jail on more
than one occasion.  I remember one time that he was on his way home from
work, stopped at the local tavern to down a few beers, and an SS officer
came in and started acting like he owned the place...

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He started joking around and laughing about how he and his cronies threw
live (Jewish) babies off of trains.  That pissed off my grandfather - he
cared not what religion they were - they were *babies* for
!$%$'s sake!.  He asked them to not talk about that.  SS officer ignored
grandfather and contined along those lines.  Granfather (now fairly stewed)
clobbered SS officer over the head with his rather heavy ceramic beer stein!
Grandfather was duly arrested, and was almost locked away for life (probably
in a concentration camp), except his boss claimed that the power company was
short handed enough as it was (with most all of the able-bodied men away at
the front lines), that they needed him to keep the power going, not only to
the masses, but to keep the factories running....