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I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.

I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.

I want to be a soldier as my father was.

I've never been a soldier. In Denmark, at 18, as a male, you go in a draw, and if they pick you, you go and serve for a year. I didn't.

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.