I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.
I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
I was never trained for anything.
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I always say - and mean - that we civilians don't deserve the soldiers we have.