I wouldn’t be a good spokesman to try and
preach patriotism because the only reason
I joined the army remember was I needed a job.
And also, I think most of the guys in that regiment,
the originals did it just for jackpot.
You got to remember, a lot of them got srpung
out of prison for different things, to join up.
The only specification you had to be
over 5’10” and relatively healthy.
You didn’t have to have a good record or anything.
So they were a good bunch of guys.
Given any kind of a chance,
they would have been a great fighting regiment
because they were that type of people but
I don’t think there was a lot
of patriotism involved in it.
They just joined the army because
it was better than the
alternatives at that point.