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Show DU TIN E TO B R 12 20 9 relieved anybody in place but there could have been units ah ad of u . It wa hard t t 11 at that point. We secured this road and there were a couple of anti-aircraft 120s I think or 122s, that were there and we demo-d those. So we set in a defense along that road. Then just the flood of foot traffic coming south, coming from the north to the south was just incredible, the amount oflraqis just walking down the street. We couldn't secure them all. We kind of stopped trying after a while. We were searching cars, searching vehicles. I remember one of the other platoons made a big huge find. They captured an Iraqi general. He was dressed in civilian clothes, but somehow they found out that he was ... I think it was Taylor or somebody from one of the other platoons, got this guy out and they brought him over and they brought the Intel from S2, the battalion S2 over and he starts grilling him out while we're all eating chow, just chilling out, right there with the little headquarters unit. He's frickin screaming at him. He said, the interpreter with the S2 guy's telling him that "He says he's a farmer." And the guy freaks out because he's a farmer back home. And he says, "Your hands are soft like a girl. These are farmer's hands. These are real man's hands." The guy just breaks down, starts bawling. I don't know. I didn't have a lot of respect for the Iraqis because they're weak minded emotionally. That's kind of what happened. I remember, that was where Corporal Hall picked up Corporal, was where we were parked right there. We were sitting there on security and he was out on security one day and First Sergeant came by and he goes, "Where's Corporal Hall at?" I go, "He's out on the line." The First Sergeant didn't want to go out there, so he's like, "He's going to be pinned corporal when we get done with all this." I called him on the radio, I'm like, 68 |
