I was born into a very, very poor family during the war in 1941. Life was miserable for everyone.

Of course people don’t want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

[Soon after he called his family.] The phone is ringing off the hook, and my poor 9-year-old is like 'What do I do?' ... This is surreal.

It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it

Doug was born and raised in Louisiana and came from a very poor family. They didn't have much.

Of course people don’t want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?