signing up

Because I had a brother killed in the air, shot down over the Mediterranean, was a tail end of a, he was a gunner in the tail end of plane. They never found his body. Then my... it disrupted the rest of the house. My mother went to work, which she’d never done in her life before, so.

Interviewer: Do you remember what your mother’s reaction was when you told her you had signed up?

Yeah, “What did you have to do that for? Isn’t one gone enough? ” Can pretty well hear her say that. Of course I, I went and did it before I told her.