Later this month, a new biography of Donald Trump will be published, entitled Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success. Written by Michael D’Antonio, a Pulitzer-prize winning former reporter, the book will no doubt anger many when they find out that Trump likened his time at an expensive military boarding school to “being in the military.”

Yes, he went there.

Trump was sent to the expensive ($31,000 per year today) New York Military Academy at Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, in eighth grade after years of rowdy behavior at the Kew-Forest School in Queens, New York. Starting there in 1959, Trump remained there through his high school years, where he wore a uniform, participated in marching drills, and was expected to conform to a military-style hierarchy. Trump said his experience there “gave him more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”

Let that sink in.

After graduation, Trump avoided the Vietnam War through deferments, but told D’Antonio, “Anyway so I never had to do that, but I felt that I was in the military in the true sense because I dealt with those people.”

One person whom I know very well who had to endure not only the rigors of the real military, but actual war itself is my 91-year-old father, a veteran of World War II.

Here is a picture of my father in his uniform with members of his bomber crew. He came from a very blue collar home in Gary, Indiana, and the rest of his crew also came from humble origins, whether from the city or the farm. No fancy schools for any of them.

He and his fellow crewmen flew 50 missions in a B-17 Flying Fortress over southern Europe and Germany. They took on enemy fighters and anti-aircraft fire while flying over their targets. Here is a video showing what they would’ve experienced.

That poem at the end of the video which described washing the ball turret gunner out with a hose? True stuff, witnessed by my dad. He experienced nightmares after returning from war, even breaking a window in his sleep one night.

Somehow I doubt that Mr. Trump even came close to such terror during his military school years.

I haven’t yet told my dad about Trump claiming his time in military prep school was like being in the military. But I don’t think I need to. A lifelong Republican, Dad has never supported Trump for president, anyway.