I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was a lieutenant in World War II.
For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.
When I became a soldier, I was drafted in 1937, and instead of being released two years later, I had to stay on because the war had started in the meantime. I was a soldier for more than eight years, as long a time as I was Chancellor.
When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.
I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.
I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.
My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.