What's this "warrior" stuff?

[Irish_Dem]

13. After my father died, we found a big box of his medals we had never seen.

He was USAF and flew combat in three wars. WWII, Korea, Viet Nam.

He rarely talked about what he did, we never heard any stories at all.

There was no bragging or warrior nonsense.
He was humble.
It was just his job.
He always said the Air Force signed his paycheck but he worked for the American people.

We lived on military bases and everyone was low key, humble, unassuming.
Most people don't realize how smart, brave, educated and skilled USAF crews are.
Because they don't strut around.

No one on base waved flags or flew them on their houses.
There was one flag in front of the base commander's office and we never saw it.
You didn't want to have to go the base commender's office if you could help it.

The active duty were the real deal, and were just doing their jobs.