Looking for Excitement

I know our fellows were, were gung-ho. You know, they, they, they wanted to go overseas there was no, there was no question about it. I mean they joined the service to go overseas. I was, I was very anxious to go overseas because my older brother had been over there for about, almost two years when I went over. And he'd spent a great deal of time in Italy, in the artillery and so on. And, so, I couldn't think of living with my older brother, who’d been overseas, and my younger brother, who hadn't been. For me, joining the service and not going overseas would've been a tragedy. You know, a mental tragedy to me. I joined, I joined the service to go overseas. I wanted the excitement, and so on, I . . . and I, I liked the army. Every bit of the army I liked, regarding the discipline, etc, etc. And I think, as I say, if I hadn't gone overseas, well, it wouldn't have even been a hollow victory for me.