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Solarampa wrote:

I have returned from hibernation from the RMB. While not being on NS that much I learned that my great-grandfather was an absolute chad. He served in WWII in the Air Force, was a Lieutenant Colonel, flew 14 missions, commanded over 600 men, took control of over 300 planes after the other two leads had to drop back, on that same mission when he returned he thought he was going to be court-marshaled, and was married to my great-grandmother for 61 years. Any more questions about him?

I don't know a lot about my great-grandfather's experience in WWII as my grandfather doesn't like talking about it, but from what I've heard, he was part of a group of footsoliders cornered by the Germans whilst travelling up the Rhine, and he escaped by jumping into the river and floating away to safety, allegedly, he later died of a disease he received from the river when my grandfather was three years old.