visit talbert's parents because i was in a hospital in indianapolis and they werep in a place called greentown, indiana near kokomo. and his mother wrote him. ed tipper came to visit from the top. and he wrote back immediately, that guy who claims to be tipper is an impost. call the mps and get him put in jail where he belongs because i saw ed tipper killed. of course we got all that straightened out a couple years later. >> babe, when you came in as a replacement before operation market garden, what was your concept of war in terms of what it would be like and how was it different than what it was actually when you got into holland and started fighting? >> ll, i remember -- can i stand? >> you c do anything you want. >> i ain't got a gun. when i was about -- it was in the '30s, early '30s. i happened to be sitting on a step in south philly. you want to know about war, the first time you get ataste of it. and i sat next to an old lady. she was up there in years. same as i am now. and a man was coming up the street. and this is about 1932 and i was maybe 9 or 10 years old. and a man wasoming up