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

At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kept a war diary, later mined for memoirs of the conflict. Few diaries, however, were published in their own right.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.

But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.