…but he never, ever bragged about it. Hell, getting him to talk about it was well-nigh impossible. “A bullet cut a phone line from the forward observation post. I crawled out under fire to fix it. Somebody had to do it and I was just a dumb kid or I probably would have thought twice about it” being more or less the way he described it.
I can’t begin to describe how angry he would be with John Kerry right now.
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)