My Uncle Dave was a real World War II hero, but with the passage of time, stories tend to grow. He started one nite after a family dinner to tell his famous Pillbox story.

There I was, on the island of Cebu, pinned down by pillbox fire and saw eighteen Japanese soldiers advancing on me …

At that point my Aunt interrupted and said, David! The last time you told the boys that story, it was a dozen enemy soldiers.

Without pausing he replied, Yes. But they were too young then to know the whole horrible truth.