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Show HARRY A. MOYER November 22,2002 think about yourself, and your age, and state of the art flying machines? How do your view your experience looking back at it now? HAR: I guess it was just great, you know. BEN: Did you learn anything about yourself from these experiences, do you think? From military service? Do you think it taught you any lessons that you wouldn't have learned elsewhere? HAR: Well, I'm sure so. I'm sure so, because the military kind of gives you a lot of discipline and instruction and facilities that you wouldn't have had exposure to before. And certainly, it made a better person out of me. I learned more about myself, I had more confidence. I guess, as I was exposed a as a cadet, an aviation cadet, I got more and more confidence in myself. You know, I felt good about being a pilot, I felt good about my ability, I felt good about me being a fighter pilot, and I felt good about me doing the job. That's what you're saying. I felt good about that, yeah. BEN: And of course, all these years since then, you now get to see the big scope of things. You get to see why the push to Sicily, and what you were doing. What's it like to know that you participated in such a large thing? HAR: Oh well, that's all I can say, I just participated in a large thing, yeah. Hacked a little piece of the problem, so to speak. BEN: Do you think you lost anything, for having served in the military for those years? If it hadn't of happened, you could have done something else, do you think? HAR: Well, I'm sure that's the case. I don't know what it would have been, because, you 113 |
