Trained to Kill

I'm gonna see if it never happens again. It's awful. That never did nothing, it never did no good. It never taught us anything. Taught us how to kill people, but, isn't that something. I was in a, an awful thing. It was, like I say, I been pretty enthusiastic about military training at that age and from there. That physi- PT and stuff, that was fun. And another thing, I remember the guy, when I run into him afterwards, saying about the things we'd learned... At that time, we had, oh, Ross rifles. Big, long rifle when you stood to attention, just caught underneath the arm, and a big, long blade, knife, bayonet on it. Well, we finally got some of the Enfield rifles, that of the Enfield, and then it wasn't very long, they come out with this new bayonet. There was like about a six-inch spike, wasn't a big, long blade. ‘Course, like I say, I was still in basic training. I remember that goddarn old British, English sergeant-major explaining why we were getting a new bayonet. It was so much better than that old knife bayonet ‘cause that ba-, other one was so hard to pull out of a guy once you stuck it to ‘em and just try to pull this thing out and that, this other one's quick, you could jab ‘em... Good Christ, I said, what have I gotten into here? I was talking about, you know, pulling a bayonet out of a guy, so it's easier than... Make you realize what the hell they been teaching you, what are you doing? That wasn't, I never thought about having to do that. That's the kind of stuff... crazy.