3 months ago 29th Aug 16:01
B.B. King regrets not serving his country in World War Two.
The guitar great was saved from full national service because he worked as a cotton picker in Mississippi at a time when plantation owners cut a deal with draft officials to keep their employees in the fields.
He tells Parade magazine, "We got only partial basic training, served a few months, and went back to work on the plantation. "So, when I die, there won't be a flag on my coffin."
And King also regrets not taking his education more seriously. despite picking up honorary degrees from Yale and Brown universities, he says, "There's never a day goes by that I don't miss having graduated and gone to college."
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