/4 (Grandpa’s parents had a car, but grandma had a flair for drama, I think.)
He did well and went off to be the supply officer on a ship in the Pacific. Went with absolutely no guarantee of coming back. That’s what people did.
My late grandfather enlisted and brought the cuckoo clock from my great-grandmother's kitchen with him on the ship. He was actually down near Cuba during Bay of Pigs.
I now have the clock (albeit, not functional).
/5 So, in terrible circumstances, think what people before you have endured. Think about how you can support and defend folks less able than you to endure. And fight the bastards.