Might Be Accused of Being a Quitter

Well I reached a point where I couldn't sleep and my nerves were bad. I was about 34 by then. Well when we arrived in a, when I arrived in France I discovered all kinds of colonels and battalion commanders and people coming out because they discovered in Italy that a person can't command a battalion for more than really six months in battle because it gets too much for him. They need to get a fresh guy and a fresh face to carry on. No, you didn't have battle fatigue in those days, you might be accused of being a quitter. It was touch and go, yes. But you have to learn to live with it and it affects some people more than others. I heard of some people, a week or two and they were finished, you know, back they go, there's a job for them back there as a truck driver or something but not on the front line.