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Mr. Edwards remembers being happy that the war was over, yet at the same time feeling strange that he would no longer be doing what he had been trained to do.
Transcription
Reaction to the War Ending
It’s a difficult thing to explain because it had become a way of life for most of us. Something, a routine that we got up every morning to take off in an armed air plane to shoot at somebody. And you flew in all sorts of hazards. You didn’t turn around because the weather was bad or the flak was heavy. You just did it and there were people getting, you know, shot down and you just went on. And now to be told that nobody’s going to shoot at you anymore and you don’t have to shoot at anyone, it took a little while to get used to this. It was a nice feeling, of course. You were glad that war was over and the destruction was over. But you’d been trained to do something.