I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically.
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
I'm glad I never went to war.