My SO's family has no military participation going back to the Civil War. They make a big deal about that participation even today and have a lot of Civil War memorabilia, most of it directly from this one person. The screamingly funny part is that this man, a farmer, took his gun to the battlefield and when the shooting started he shit his pants and laid down pretending to be wounded. He crawled away that night and returned to his farm never to participate in combat again. He "fought" for the North at Wilson's Creek Missouri. I don't know how they managed to avoid WWII, Korea, Vietnam etc. but they did.
I bet there are many other families like them.
John Thornton