It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.