His transformation began, he said, the day in 1994 when the Army told him that it was kicking him out.

The Army told me, quite curtly, that my services were no longer necessary.

He expected Moss to know regardless of whether the Army told him.

The Army had told him he could come back in six months, if his family situation was squared away, and he was thinking about it.

This is not how the Israeli Army tells the story.

The Army told them not to, because it would provide better protection in Iraq, relatives said.

He demanded that the Army tell Hitler to halt his preparations for war.

The French Army told him to make one, and he spent two years developing it.

He said that military pay was so bad that the Army was telling soldiers not to marry until they had been promoted to captain.

"The Army still won't tell you what we were there for," he said in 1958.