What word are you? Do you think the description fits you?

My word is compion. I am 88 years old and have seen so much suffering, so much death in WW2 and could do nothing about it, not even given the time to mourn those comrades. Came out disabled , spent nearly 5 years in hospital getting cured of those afflictions. My life has been devoted to trying to make the world a better place to live in. Well not my whole life because i am still trying.