I'm in Melbourne, Australia and it's fascinating to hear living history from another place in the world. Thank you for uploading, it's been a great way to begin my day listening to this gentleman's stories

Thank you John, did you kill any babies?

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YAAAAAWN

Freaks

HE IS THROWED OFF.DIFFINTLY SOMETHING DOES SMELL .

Thanks for sharing this. I’m a nineteen year old enby. It’s good to learn about queer history.

Such a moving interview. Thanks to Chris for his honesty and vulnerability.

im on vacation. this is what i'm doing. this guy tells a good story. this is the only one i watched all the way through; and they all have interesting stories.

God bless you!

I like listening to the vets but hard when the interviewer is not good at all some of the videos because of him you cant watch

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Great interviewer, great coach!

THank you for sharing this great STORY OF HIS TOUR OF DUTY. My dad was in the 254th. M COMPANY.

Cut to the chase. Too much time on family background. Now I don't want to watch the rest of the video.

The Koreans treated the POW'S about the same as the Japanese did. This man went through alot.

You are not a good interviewer to many dumb questions and you seem to have little intellectual hard to watch

Ya know, ya know, ya know, basically basically basically, unlistenable.

This guy gets way too personal, with the family info.🤕

You ask to many questions about family.

The interviewer asked so many irrelevant questions about his family it is so stupid

Terrible interview it's like he is getting interrogated and so many pointless questions

What started off like a really fun interview degraded into increasingly disbelieve tails, where even the interviewer is giving disinterested "uh huh's"... At the point he said he shot down an F4 phantom, using his door gun, I gave up listening.

Note to author - I just finished the whole thing. I recommend you rename the video to something like "Interview the REAL great escape ww2 veteran from Stalag Luft 3"... Then include his name at the very top of the description. This will help more people find this amazing interview, and get the views it deserves.

Excellent!

What a hell of a man who served this country in the head such big conchos all his life that' Clanked when he walked.

I want to thank you for this incredible interview. The sound might not have been great, but once I had listened for ten minutes, I soon got used to it. The stuff on stalag luft 3 was rivetting - but it was also good to hear there were some good Germans and that is of course something left out on modern history. Really enjoyed it thanks!

Would have been better if you interviewed that lamp, no point interviewing a REMF!!

Thanks Roger. Interesting experience

Thank you, I went in the army in the early 70s and I'm so glad you made it home, enjoy life 😮

Needed to ask many more open ended questions. The interviewer is talking more than the interviewee.

Thank you John!

Beautiful but couldn't it be made larger ?

Thank you Sir for your service 🦅 Great interesting story .👍👍👍👍👍

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My heart goes out to all veterans, and I wonder how they cope,with seeing their grandchildren throwing it all away

I go to lego crew at Madeira Library

One of my favorite interviews ever, and I've watched a bunch.

Just so many stupid questions that's not relative to the man's military service cut out all the brother-in-law and brothers and children crap

Yeah, and who makes E8/E9 in 4 years? NOBODY.

Great to hear from Captain Wilkins Mays !

RIP

This interview reveals the personality of this great man in the context of serving his country. It’s not often we are blessed with observations of a man 99 1/2 years. You will be blessed by hearing him.

You know my dad Augusto Santamaria, filipino, went to UC law?

What a great interview with so many stories. Amazing about all his woodworking and whittling still today. And it was so neat to see him in his dress uniform!!!!

God Bless Robert. Great man.

I wish we Veterans in Las Vegas had a Veterans History project locally. My Dad served during WW11 with the 26th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division in North Africa, Sicily, Omaha Beach (Normandy), the Hurtgen Forest and was wounded during the Battle of the Bulge on December 21 or 22, 1944. He recovered in the Valley Forge Military Hospital by June, 1945. Coincidentally, I served with the 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division in Viet Nam 1966-1967. Then Lt. Col. Alexander M. Haig was our Battalion Commander.

Wow this guy is sharp for his age.

Sounds just like the VA, cutting benefits for the truly deserving. Going through the same thing.

This interviewer is atrocious.