Joining up with Friends

It was a school picnic on the 28th of June and four of us or three of us really decided we would join the army. I don’t know why and we thought we could go over to Germany and finish that war off on the first day, you know, so we joined the army. My brother then he took over the farm. One of the guys that I joined up with he was training with paratroopers and his parachute didn’t open. The other guy I don’t know where he was in the army, I never really asked him but after the war he worked for Burns Construction, they were strip mining those days and he asked me, you know, in the winter time why don’t I work him, well looking after cattle and that I thought no I won’t but anyhow he committed suicide. I guess it got too much for him. So that was my friends that joined with me. Sad eh, but anyhow…