i personally have mixed feelings about it. one of my grandfathers was brought home from the repat hospital on a stretcher still half-full of shrapnel . my father and his brothers used to carry him to the pub once a week so he could get out the house and his bed where he died after a few years. i had another uncle in changi who never properly recovered. the family lost a large number of relatives in Europe in camps.  other uncles were more fortunate. then i have my partners grandfather and grandmother who both passed a few years ago. He said his abiding memory was washing blood from the plane of his dead friends and how many died . he was RAAF and didn't march and thought the entire business phony.. her job was to spy on others in London , listen in on conversations in pubs etc (loose lips sink ships) and was only able to talk of it 50 years later where she was featured in a book published a few years ago containing womens war stories..