JUDr. Jan Choděra

"I went to the army on December 1, then I was in Litoměřice for, let's say, three Sundays, so when we approved the petition [condemning Charter 77], I could be there for three Sundays at most." - "And can you describe what it was like with the petition in the army?" - "Well, first of all, we were invited by the political officer, and he was an excellent man, a good man, Lieutenant Michálek, and he told us that it was wrong and that we soldiers should..." - "Dissociate ?" - "Or, well, something like that."

"And as for the unhappy sixty-eighth year, I basically experienced it in a similar way to everyone else. But I know for a fact who started banging on our door at that time on the Sázava, and what he said to us. I know that I was in the former Kozinka grove with Pepík Štecher. We were sitting at the table like this, maybe we had the radio on, and we were talking, and suddenly a terrible approaching rumble. We were looking out the window - first the barrel of a tank and two or three more behind them."