You can be surprised, can't you ?
My father never talked about the war, and never encouraged my interests in
MVs, though he commanded some sort of group of those quad / limber / 25
pounder things.... (statutory MV content)
Went to a party as a family, once, and there was this Russian guy on his
own. My father went up to him and chatted away in fluent Russian for
quite a while - said he picked it up during the war............ Were we
surprised - better believe it.
He made a point of not going back over his wartime experience though, and
just got on with his life.
Gordon
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