Why He Enlisted

I really, truly say that I went over there to kill, to stop those Nazis. I had to stop that, that was going on in Europe. Because I could see, and this is before he overran in 1940, this is while he was still sitting there and beating the Poles in very short time. But, no, I knew, I was twenty-three, I wasn't just a kid and I had a good job and not only a good job, I would never have had to serve because I was in the merchant marine. And, no, I do know that a lot of people jumped off, well I know a lot even in my own regiment that jumped off a freight train straight in there for a buck a day. And something, three square meals, I know that. But me, personally, no. I went over there to stop Hitler, my little bit that I could do.