All I ever knew of my dad's experiences in WWII in China were #1 he never ate rice again in any shape or form #2he would never talk about it except to say he always felt they (the Army) took 3 years of his life away from him. The year before his death he wrote us a 25 page document detailing his memories of that experience. It took me 4 tries to get through it. I found out more about my dad after my mother died. Her sister told me a lot of things we never knew - mostly relating to how my dad suffered emotionally from his experiences inthe war. The people I wish I had asked more of? My dad's parents, who died when i was 16 and 19. I remember asking all kinds of genealogical related questions all my life of anyone who would answer, but by the time I really got into being serious about it my grandmother no longer had her right mind. She died at the age of 99 when I was 19. And that is assuming she would have been forthcoming with info about her illegitimacy and her bio father. But at least I know who he was, thanks to her sister-in-law in the 1970's.