I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.
After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first stage of military training; it instills discipline and various qualities required for military life.
I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
I have a tremendous amount of respect for military families. To have to worry about your loved ones and still try and live a normal life is extremely hard.
I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
I grew up in a Navy family.
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.
I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.