did your grandparents/parents talk to you about war?

my dad was in the vietnam war and my grandpa was in ww2 and korea. several times in school i had assignments that involved asking relatives about their experience in the military during a war or conflict. neither of them would talk about it beyond telling me that war is horrible. my dad never saw combat and my grandpa was a medic. i sometimes wonder if the distance between myself and my dad at least had something to do with how the war changed his personality. later i found out that he suffered a debilitating back injury on the ship he was stationed at that the military never offered medical assistance over. he drank for the rest of his life, hard. we didn't have a relationship when he died last year.

i'm assuming in our age range that a lot of folks also had parents or grandparents that went to war. i know this might sound like a political post due to its subject matter, but i'm not asking for folks political opinions on the military or war. mostly just curious if other folks in my age range had parents or grandparents who actually talked to them about their experience? did it ever help you understand your dad?