I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.
I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
We're in a world war.
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.