Really want to know

Just to set the scene, I am 81 years old, a professional musician for over 65 years, and a Vietnam Vet. I wonder how many young people would be interested in learning how I grew up, and the values I was taught? Why don't teachers use us old people to talk to their classes to highlight the differences in our upbringing?

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Dignaga

I am 41, and in middle school had a vet from the Bataan Death March and another who was in Burma talk to me, and a few others at a small table. The rest of the middle school was split up similarly in the gym in small groups with other vets.

The Burma guy was black and upset the white spldiers in the fox holes insisted he jump on them when they were getting mortared, to be used as a shield. He went his own way.