Samuel Florman

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Samuel: "It was in December [1941] that I signed up with the Navy and I remember that fall as the term started, representatives from the various services started showing up on campus and giving presentations. And it was like going to the movies: you went this evening and the Army is telling you how wonderful the Army is and what wonderful chances [and] opportunities you will have if you will only sign up with them. They will leave you in college and then when you do go to the Army you will be a four star general before you know it…. A lot of my classmates and I guess maybe even those in the classes ahead would sign up. And maybe one semester or two semesters later, as the war required, all the promises were forgotten and suddenly dozens of classmates were swept off to boot camp and were in the middle of battle before anybody knew what had happened."

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