It was my duty to shoot the enemy and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines soldiers buddies. I'm not naive and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas paint them up in war colours and do er nostalgia trips to Arnhem – you know where the old paratroopers used to go – and charge them about 20 quid a time.
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War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name a face a place and match it to families then war is not impersonal.
