Positive Impact of Military Service

They knew what the army was, and they knew it wasn’t a game, like we thought it was when we first went in the army. It was serious. It was like, you had a job to do. If you don’t do it right, you’re the one that’s going to answer. It made most of the fellas that I know, become a man. But I don’t think I would have been the way I was today, and different things. I belong to different things, I got forty years in, almost forty five years in the Legion, you know, and different things like that. I don’t think if I had stayed here, and never went in the army, I don’t think I would be the same person. Oh, it had everything on my life, my ways of thinking, things that I thought I might not do, that I can do. I think it’s worth a try, if that’s what you feel. But if that’s not what you feel, then don’t do it. And don’t do it because someone else tells you, “Oh, you should go.” You don’t have to go. If you want to go, you go. But if you don’t want to, you don’t go. Like with me, I probably would go to Korea again. But I wouldn’t go to Iraq and Iran. None of those places. Because these people fought for hundreds of years, and they ain’t gonna give it up that easy, and I ain’t going there. And that’s like the guy that came to Canada here from the United States. He’s a hero and everything. He’s been over there twice already, and they tell him that he has to go there again. If I was in the United States, I’d run over here, too, and I’d say good luck, too. You know, you took a bite at the bullet twice. No good pushing it.