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Bobby Eberhardt

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While in training, Eberhardt remembers that a lot of it was specifically designed to teach the new recruits how to kill their targets. He went over to Germany, where he was assigned to prison guard duty right outside of Giesen, Germany. (6:40)

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Eberhardt gives specifics about the jobs he had on guard duty at the Giesen prison camp, and the mostly pleasant interactions he had with prisoners. He would trade cigarettes with some of them in exchange for handcrafted items. He also talks about some of the places he slept in during that time. (3:34)

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Eberhardt remembers still being in Germany during the Nuremberg trials, in which he was assigned a job of taking prisoner's papers to Frankfurt for further criminal inspection. He was discharged in November 1946, and came back to the United States shortly after. From there he joined the National Guard. He gives a bit more detail about his brother's service overseas before him. (3:26)

Boyd McKeown

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Boyd McKeown remembers how uncomfortable accomodations, while being transported across Europe during World War II, were made a little easier with a taste of French culture. (4:43)

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Boyd McKeown talks about how World War II differed from the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (:59)

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Boyd McKeown describes the process by which American troops were sent home after World War II, and how German prisoners often came across information faster than the troops themselves. (3:33)

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Boyd McKeown remembers a poignant moment while headed home from deployment after World War II. (:57)

Brad Snyder

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Brad Snyder went from the Citadel into basic training, which was cut short by the Cuban Missile Crisis. The next stop was the 8th Armored Cavalry which had the only nuclear weapon in the Army's arsenal. Thankfully, that was never deployed during the first ever division versus division war games. (3:49)

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The first thing that got his attention when he arrived in Vietnam was the smell, followed by the temperature, the humidity and the motor scooters. Assigned to advise a South Vietnamese armored unit, he was humbled when his counterpart was older, more experienced and had been to more armor schools in the states than he had. As for the Vietnamese people, he loved them and was proud to be helping. (6:15)

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He was happy that he could get a hamburger at the American Compound, but the real happiness for ARVN advisor Brad Snyder came from helping the nuns and children at the orphanage near the compound. He got the Seabees to dig a well for them which meant they no longer had to carry water with baskets and poles. (4:08)