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And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time.

My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.