I served at the Pentagon and at Fort Leavenworth - my job was video cameraman, and that allowed me to travel to places like Korea, Japan, Alaska, Germany and the Netherlands.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.
I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan.
I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.
I was a public affairs officer. I worked with the media, but I didn't just stay at my desk. I assisted in military duties, travelled around Anbar province, hung out with a wide variety of Marines.
I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
I was a sailor. I was torpedoed, spent two weeks in a lifeboat. I was on the Murmansk run; I worked a 20 mm. machine gun, helped bring down a Stuka, all that kind of stuff. I've got letters from Franklin Roosevelt for things I did then. But those kind of credentials didn't work for you in the Cold War.
After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.