 Sixty years later, I find the pension application of that veteran, and it tells the same story. This young man had run away from home, had joined the Army for 18 months, and at the end of his term of about 18 months of service, he doesn't go home. He joins the Connecticut Coast Guard and serves locally about 70 miles from where he grew up, but he doesn't go home again. So there was clearly some tension in the relationship between father and son.