"It all started when I met a United States Army nurse. I was very fortunate to meet her. I was serving as a Liaison Officer for the Belgian government, at the German war crimes trial. One day when I was thinking of something else, I stepped into the street and a car hit me! I was very fortunate. If I had been watching where I was going, then it wouldn't have hit me, and I wouldn't have been brought to the United States army hospital, and I would not have met Elsie..."