Shalom Yoran - Growing up fast as a partisan
Transcript: My meaning is was that I came in age because I was a kid and I was grown up kid, but still when the war started I was 14. And I became a man really you know, in the war. And if the the final stage the most important stage was the three years of of partisans in army. Made me a man. Made me you know before that I felt that I'm still still a boy. First thing is you you know, is the responsibility that that you are responsible you are not in you you cannot rely to say to to somebody you know, I am a boy and you are responsible for me you help me. Now I suppose to help myself? Am I supposed to help others? I am a full man with all the responsibility this. I I you know, if you take my my my attitude I was a 30 year old man with experience in life. Bad experience but experience in life. I was suspicious I was I didn't you know, I I was not believing so much in in people 'cause I saw so much terrible things what people did to people. I didn't feel as as a young man and I came even in Palestine it took me took me years to to became my age I was all feeling the time older and I I already passed so much in the my life that, uh I have no time for for I was very bad courting after girls. I was terrible. My wife could tell you that (Laughs) 'cause I couldn't I couldn't do it I couldn't be, you know, nice or think of this looking I was for me it was how I can do it I can be nice to girl and told her nice things and told her about love how how I can do it?

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