yea I am thinking of fewer directly participating individuals and no one laterally in my generation, compared to what you're describing, but nonetheless I immediately copped what you were talking about. Shout out to your pop-pop, that's pretty brave for him to say and it sounds like it helped you avoid making the same enlistment decisions as other kin. I really ought to look in to therapy options, or at least theory around generational trauma.

[–] SwagliacciTheBadClown@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah the biggest factor was, no doubt, that I’m in the first generation that just went to college instead. But yeah i kinda assumed that side of the family were Quakers or something with how anti war they are - which is very cool and good considering the alternative