I really didn't know my family was still waiting for something.

I?m just happy I won it, for my family ? although they don?t need any help.

A dam doesn't try to reason with the water. Its main purpose is to hold it still for a while. When I lecture my kids I'm doing much the same thing. I'm not trying to necessarily reason with them, just hold them still for a short while.

Such a commitment deserves to be fully understood and acknowledged in its own time, and not 35 years hence.

It was my father's death notice in the paper that the Army genealogist was able to trace us.

Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.