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Mr. Patrick speaks about his experiences while getting equipped for the Korean War and how protected he felt because of being taught by World War Two Veterans.
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A lot of my instructors, a lot of people that were with me were in World War Two, so they had the experience of how to survive on the battlefield, and they taught us a lot and I have to thank them very much for that. I would say one thing, the army taught me how to drink and smoke. It was fun. It was hard work, but it was fun. They were trying to get me ready to go to Korea and I had to take a lot of courses before I left.Again since I was the only black at that time in that particular troop, they kind of took me under their wings, you know. A lot of them were from Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in those days and we got along really good. I knew there’s times where somebody would say something and the next thing I know he’d be outside and somebody would be cuffing him. I was well protected. I was well looked after. I don’t know why, I guess it was my chummy personality maybe, I don’t know.