Why yes, yes I was! With a minor in cavalry!
So what did you do but ride a horse into the battle as the Poles did against German tanks. Some how this didn't work in that time but a good damn good try. Mean while the Warsaw Ghettos the Jews had been pushed into were fighting for their lives.
Interesting that a large amount of Jews escaped and joined the French underground movement and In America the Jehovah's Witnesses were right on top of the building the concentration camps and the gas chambers. The idea was so outlandish and horrid few believed any of this was reality, who in their right mind would do this. The reality became even worse when the doctors began experiments on people that hit the roof in in reality.
In The south when facing Indians heading our way, the sound of the bugle of the Calvary coming was a music to our ears.
Today when there is a problem the Bugle call taken up by the police sirens are much the same.