James Kurtz

In a lot of ways it was a lot harder being home. Because when you were there you were with people – even though you didn't always know their real names, you just knew their nicknames and all of that, it was a brotherhood of... 'we're in this together, we've got to help each other' and all of that. There just wasn't that type of thing coming back here. This was not the cohesion and all of that. The fact that the government didn't identify this as a problem because, you know, WWII veterans pretty much participated in the veteran movement – not all of them, there's a lot of them that didn't, but it was readily available and it was a welcoming thing. Where we didn't have that opportunity.