I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

I was drafted during the Korean War.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.