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Mine? I don't what mine would be important to anyone else anymore. I know what mine are though. Mine was sadness. Killing a hundred thousand people at a time doesn't seem like a joyful thing. I wasn't ashamed of my country, just sad for the world that it came to that.

Yes I prayed and I do pray. I'm not a member of a formal church and never have been. I believe there's some big power up there doing something and I don't know what it is. But one reason I can live through all this, is I'm comfortable not knowing, and that's a great feeling to have. And that I'm not afraid of all these things I don't know, I'm not afraid of the future. I recognize that everything doesn't go well all the time, and I'm able to accept bad days and bad things.

That's why I look so good at 92, I don't know how I look, I feel like I'm 93 [laughs]. I laugh at the world often. I can't do anything about it (the world) and I know that.

Well during that time there was a depression, and a lot of people were hard hit. I was raised by my father and mainly by him alone. We wasn't home much, he was away working somewhere. My father would take us to ball games, or other things that didn't require much money, we'd go to those because they were free. And I understood that, and that affected my life. Most of my friends weren't as poor as I were, and they'd go to the movies. Whereas I'd go to the railroad station and watch the trains.

I didn't think much about what would be happening 80 years down the line when I was 10. [laughs] I think I would've been optimistic. I don't think a 10 year old really gives a damn. [laughs]

Well I've got two major thoughts on that (the second question). Even if they won the war, all they'd do is conquer England. I don't think the German people would've taken Hitler seriously for more than five years. And if they won the war, it'd be chaos in Germany. I don't think they would've been able to make a difference over a span of 20-30 years, I believe the nazis would've disappeared. The German people are intelligent, they've proven that many times, so they wouldn't have put up with that for more than a couple of decades.

I had always admired the British. I landed at Liverpool and we were met by a Scottish bagpipe band. That impressed me. The people I met surrounding our base at Molesworth were always so friendly and nice. And I also went to London many times, the train ride and people were always pleasant. I admired Britain because they controlled the world, more or less, before WWII.