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My name is Haig: H. A. I. G.
I was more or less out of this country from 1939 to 45 and with three years spent in prison camps.
So, it was quite a deprivation for people of my age
and I find myself very changed, very different
and I think probably many people were the same.
But if you've been actually deprived for three years of really leading a normal life
in a prison camp you are, you become, different.
It affected many people and those were lost years and one feels sad that one had to go through all that
but there it is, we did it. We had no choice.
I was able to, because of my father, render certain services in my father's name
to help the leadership of the Legion and the Haig Fund and that was my main job
you know for those post-war years
and I was really inspired by the others with whom I shared carrying out those duties.
They were wonderful people and I hope it'll carry on.
There's never been, I don't think, any moment when there was not
some event of war happening somewhere in which we weren't involved.
After the Falklands we had a bit of peace and then it all started up again.
There must be some way of stopping the repetition of the need to fight.
Somehow we've got to get that one right because it can't go on, this situation.