After One Year, You’re Different

You don’t realize it at the time but people tell you, you know, you’re you know, you’re a bit different, which they say you grow up fast. But yeah it’s, it was a great homecoming and to be with my parents again and girlfriends and all that. I stayed in the service which helped, you know. I stayed with the same group of people which was a great help, you know, because we would talk about things amongst ourselves. I suppose if you got out, you were on your own, people didn’t understand. I think this is the hard part for people that, you know, coping. I had no real ill effects from that, mental wise you know. Then again, 21, you know I just, I had a great career ahead of me. I stayed in the service and I knew what was ahead of me and I had a secure life with my family. But some people came back that weren’t, you know, with nerves I guess, this post syndrome they call it. I guess there’s people in Korea are suffering from that or did suffer. At that time they didn’t recognize it like they do now, you know. I suppose maybe all of us did act a little bit different but, you know, with the memories and everything, at the time we didn’t have anywheres to go and didn’t know there was anything wrong with us, but I suppose a certain amount, extent there was, you know, with me, especially looking back with the children you know, that was the hard part.