Not All Could Serve

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Mr. Spear reflects on his impressions of individual's contributions to the War effort; specifically, how it took him some time to understand and appreciate that for various reasons, not everyone could contribute as directly as he and other troops did.

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Well I know when I , when the war was over, I had, had a tendency maybe to look down on people my own age who hadn't served, hadn't been in uniform. But now I realize that everyone couldn't be in uniform. There were things that had to be done, and people had various reasons for not serving, you know. And there wasn't cowardice in all cases by any means, you know, they had family responsibilities, and health, and I was young and foolish and I wanted adventure and I got it. But we used, used to sort of look down on these people for a while, but that's all forgotten.

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