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Redlands Hometown Heroes Foundation and the city invite residents to honor those who serve or have served in the U,S. military.

A wife, kids, the latest appliances, a home of your own. the gi bill, generous government benefits, helped them buy the homes they were building. it paid for college educations and helped them start businesses. new was in. new suburbs and new cars and highways to get there. building the country was the easy part, gis would discover. passing on to children the tough values that won the war, that would take all the effort a war hero could muster. bob bush wanted his sonls to be in the business but...

Who gets most points wins. ♪ >> they were the winners and the celebrations could have gone on for months but they didnt. most gis werent looking to be called heroes. they are looking ahead, wanting to take what they learned if battle to building their lives. bob bush for one was in a hurry to make up for lotteries time. he married his girlfriend and started at a lumber yard. within five years he owned the business. over the next two decades, he and his family developed bay view lumber into a b...

>> bush says hes officially retired. but he maintains a home office and he just cant stop expanding the business. although both boys documented their dads line of work, they have not been as enthusiastic about his total immersion in the business. for father bob, the gi, building the business half of the war was the mission without end. for the sons, babyboomers, work provided the means to live well. >> what a difference. >> maybe we put the one into the batch plant to start with and move. >> kee...

A few months ago, bush attended a reunion of the medal of honor society in saratoga springs, new york. >> it is really lifting to get together with fellow veterans and enjoy each other. were just like brothers. >> bob, if you could change anything right now, based on all that youve seen and all that youve been through. what would you change? >> i think the discipline amongst the young people, even within my home, i can see this lack of ability to interim rhett and understand hard times. in our h...

In the midst of a ferocious japanese attack, he crawled on to a battlefield, treated and revived a wounded lieutenant. >> then japanese threw hand grenades down. i threw my arm up like this. i had a 45 in the shoulder holster so that saved me but it took out this eye. it hit me really hard. >> bush picked up the wounded lieutenants rifle, killing a number of japanese soldiers. >> it didnt mean anything to shoot them. it didnt. i never laid awake at night. they were the enemy. they were after me....

Bravery and combat, the congressional medal of honor. when they were kids, they saw the medal in a box in his den. but like a few million other children of gis, susan, rick and mick bush are only now learning to appreciate how many of their fathers behavior toward them was formed by the war experiences he kept to himself. >> probably dont remember anything relating to the war until i was 12 or 13 years old. i dont remember my first recollection of realizing he had a glass eye. it certainly wasnt...

>> i tell you, im scared to see rick go to the store and so is mary. ♪ >> when it comes to his attitude about money and work, bob bush is no different from millions of other gis. they grew up during great depression. a decade of deep economic despair on the land like a plague. members of bushs generation watched their parents struggle for the barest of necessities. that affected them as much as the war that followed. it is understandable that bob bush and other gis vowed a better life for thei...

>> they were the winners and the celebrations could have gone on for months, but they didnt. most gis were not looking to be called heroes. they were wanting to apply what they learned in battle to the new task of building their lives. bob bush for one was in a hurr tow make up for lost time. he married his sweetheart wanda spooner and went to work in their hometown in washington. he started at a lumber yard and within years owned the business. over two decades, he and his family developed bayvi...

>> when it comes to as attitude about money and work, bob is no different from millions of others. they grew up in the great depression, a decade of great economic despair on the land like a plague. members of bushs generation watched parents struggle for the bare necessities. that marked them as strong low as the war experience that followed. it is understandable that bob bush and other gis vowed a better life for their own children. it is difficult for the children to understand why their pare...