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 father's behavior toward them was formed by the war experiences he kept to himself. >> probably don't remember anything relating to the war until i was 12 or 13 years old. i don't remember my first recollection of realizing he had a glass eye. it certainly wasn't until i was probably in my early teens. >> when bob bush was a teenager, he was receiving his medal of honor from president harry truman in ceremonies on the white house lawn. bush was 18. the age that most kids are graduating from high school. only a few months earlier, he had wayne marine medic on the island of okinawa.