Payne's Note

I did something I’m still, I’m still hurt about it myself. I should have known better because Johnny Payne, the night that they were leaving, he came over, gave me a note that I was supposed to give to his parents and I should have given it to George LeBlanc or Nixon, or something like that, until the war was over. Instead of that I called Sergeant (inaudible) and I gave it to him and that’s the sorriest thing I ever did. I saw him coming back and I asked for it two or three times on the ship that we were coming back on. He’d say, “Ya, I’ll give it to you, I’ll give it to ya!” He never did and Johnny Payne’s mother and sisters saw it in the paper because he was a glory hunting “son of a…” pardon my language. And that’s hurt me ever since. I’m sorry I had to bring that into it but I had to get it out. I’ve been keeping this in for all these years.