There’s no glory in war.

It was just a war that we went through. It was just a war that every soldier, every person had a thing to do, they done it. The men that went to war went for one purpose - to make things better for people. That they were serving their country in what ways they could, but let them know that there is no glory in war. I found out one thing when I went back to Holland in April - that the people there are so grateful to the soldiers and airmen, vice versa, the Canadians that liberated them, that sometimes I felt like, “Gee, you’re embarrassing me.” Because when I was over there, there was a group of people that were asking me questions and vice versa. I told them, “Hey, that we were there for one thing - to try to make it better for somebody else and make it better for us. Don’t think we were just there to save you.” I told them we were there to save ourselves too, you know. We just didn’t go over there to save people over there. We went to serve, I guess, our country and make it better for people here, isn’t it? That’s what all them guys over there laying underneath the stones, that’s what they did it for.