A Mother’s Intervention

Well I, I remember telling mom and dad about registering at the school, and then the Navy and the Air Force. They said that they would give a call and all that, when they were going to get the word to do it, to recruit. But mother unknown to me, mother was very reluctant for me to join the Navy and well dad approved I guess. Dad was also the military you know from the First World War and he was quite happy that I was in the service. But to carry this business a little further, after I got into the Cameron’s and we went to Iceland, mother received a letter at home now that we are allowed to recruit you are to report at such, such a place, and to sign me up. But, what my mother did tore the letter up. I never knew about it until after I got home. Then, you know I was glad that she did that because I woke up to the fact that this was a war and what the Germans were doing to our shipping, everything. I was kind of glad that I got into the infantry, you know.