Loading onto the Barge

Like really start when you go on the barges you knew that was, there was maybe no return, that was kind of an anxious. Well all the guys you know, they were writing letters and giving them to the crew or the bar to send home to their wife, of course I was still single and I didn't have to do that. Yeah but it was hard on married men you know to...

Interviewer: Well tell me about that, that feeling, what it felt like to finally load onto the barge.

Well, to start with like, not so much on the barge but going into action. Like when you were going to make an attack you get a butterfly feeling in your stomach. Course that happens to everybody, like kind of a nervous feeling. Some guys can't eat nothing like when they get like that, but I was just the opposite, I could, didn't bother me to eat, guess I was a glutton or something and if, you know, if there was food around.