His great-great... great... grandfather was one of the Kentucky Long Knives ... then, every generation in every war in America... oodles of land gifts from the governors in the New America..
Elroy, I do not want to belabor the point, but seeing The Longest Day in the movies is not the same as landing on the beach with the other soldiers. You, I assume had an American passport and could leave any time you wanted without walking through a mine field to leave as Russian soldiers were watching you from two guard towers.