(Questioned about posting this here too since it's not furry writing but thought maybe I should, so it's a bit late, but while it's a day late for Memorial Day, oh well.)

Today, I'd like to share a different kind of writing. Writing that's not by me but was told to me so that I could tell it to others. The autobiography of my grandpa's time in the Korean War, as told to me.

I don't think I knew my grandfather on my dad's side was in the Korean War until I was somewhere in my mid-late 20s (for reference, around the early 2010s). I didn't really have much reason to know it: He never brought it up (nor did anyone else, pretty much).

Half a year ago, I took a short vacation from work to visit him and my grandmother for a few days, and before I went, I knew one thing I wanted to do: Write down his story. I'd heard from both him and my dad that it wasn't a horror-story kind of war story, he didn't get to Korea until only several months before the end of the war, but he was happy to tell it to me.

A couple of years before, he'd written some of this himself and sent it to the family in the form of a short piece called The Last Patrol, which detailed the last patrol he went on just before the armistice was signed.

I wrote down everything else, as he told it to me. So now, since it's fitting for the holiday, I'd like to share it.

Some names have been changed or removed from what I sent my family, and as noted above, don't expect any big military epic. But it's here all the same.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing