“I tell myself, ‘Hey, you have to live on… for those who can’t be here today, who wish they were… Those guys died so you could be here, living and having the freedoms we often take for granted.’ “
Many of my friends had already [been] drafted, and I had four brothers who were in before me. I felt like I couldn’t live a normal life knowing that I didn’t go.
He could probably have achieved anything he wanted to, but he felt this was his way to take care of his family.
I respect what he did. He went over there and served selflessly. He was a very good man; I wish I could be half the man that he was.
