David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

continued. “It was war! The British
Army was out there with armored cars
and weapons and you name it. That’s a
war zone we lived in. The British Army
came in here with every means that they
had available to put us down. And we
were like rubber dolls—we’d just
bounce back up again. Don’t get me
wrong. We got hurt on the way down. A
lot of people had heartache. I suffered
from anger for a long, long time, and
I’ve apologized to my children for that.
But the circumstances dictated that. It
wasn’t how I was. I wasn’t born that
way. This was forced upon me.”