I think it is pretty normal for people to exaggerate "the good old days".
There were actually only about 500,000 people at woodstock, but if you counted the folks that claim they were at woodstock that number would be at least several million if not in the tens of millions.
I know folks who remember where they were the day John Kennedy was shot who weren't even alive when it happened.
It has been my experience that people who have actually experienced the "horrors" of war do not like to talk about it much. Those that brag about the super spiffy heroic deeds they did usually did not do as much as those that never talk about their experience; and those that claim to have been the bravest most ferocious folks the vietcong ever saw never got closer to battle then the rear lines, serving meals to the brass. But who wants to tell their kids, "yeah I was there, serving food to the admirals. It was a tough job, but someone had to do it."
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