"Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they realized a new war was about to break out across Europe, with Hitler at the head of the goose-stepping parade."

“I didn't lie! Nobody calls me a liar. I may have increased my age.”

“If your country needs you, you should be right there, that is the way I felt when I was young, and that's the way I feel today.”

“I had many different assignments and I was doing things that I thought were important... no, I didn't either: I didn't think they were important. But I found out afterwards when I read up on my history that some of the things that I did were quite important.”

“Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting?”

“In the Philippines in those last months, it was perfect starvation. They had planned to starve us to death.”

“An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.”