Since you guys mention fathers and grandfathers I would like to add something veteran wise from europe. The Balkans.

My father and uncle were in the Croatian war from 1991-1992, and my uncle was in the Bosnian war aswell from 1992-1994. He was a military man in the JNA(Yugoslav peoples army), my pops is a doctor. Im talking about the Yugoslav breakup wars wich im sure you all know about.

Grandfather, my pops father and the most of his brothers were in WW2 as part of the partisan movement (the Josip Broz Tito faction of the country, the communist faction). He got a few medals and got a rank of colonel after the war. His still alive. Those were some tough guys in the tough period.

Sorry if this tread was only meant to be about US veterans, I just thought Id bring a nice european spark to the thread.