I was born as a soldier and will die as one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
I want to be a soldier as my father was.
If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.
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