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I want to be a soldier as my father was.

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 was born as a soldier and will die as one.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.