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Show Robert E. Irion ptemb r 20'h 2002 ROB: o it wasn't. And they wouldn't let us do any parachute training. hey aid 'You had to do it right the first time." But it was all classroom-type setting. Okay I wa there when D-Day hit. And I can remember it very well because on the night of the 4 th of June, which is my birthday incidentally- the night of the 4th of June we had half partitions that went up oh, about five feet high beside your bed, and then it was open to the ceiling from there. And the guy in the next bunk to me, or the next room to me, had his light on all night. And it was hard to sleep- I'd wake up, and he'd have the light on. It kind of interrupted your sleep you know? So the next morning I said, Why didn't you turn that light off last night? Did you go to sleep reading or what?" He said, "No, I kept the light on because the bed bugs were biting me so bad." I said, "The bed bugs?" Well, and then he started showing me his mattress and his mattress cover, and there were little-bitty bed bugs on the thing. So we reported the thing, and the very next day way, man they got everybody together, and we had a bed bug expert tell us about, "We're going to come in her and blow torch this, and we're going to get rid of all these bed bugs. You know, can't have that!" Well, we thought that too. June 6t\ the morning of June 6t\ D-Day, when we got up that morning, we had to put our mattresses and bunks and everything out on the front lawn for them to blow torch the mattress and the springs, and clean them and all the rest, you know, and I remember this Corporal, working on the job, standing there, saying, "When my little boy asks me, Daddy, what were you doing on D-Day? Where were you? I'm going to have to tell him I was killing bed bugs!" So anyhow, we were there through 42 |
