Bill Pastore, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Jason Hardy, September 20th, 2006: part of the Saving the legacy project

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when you jump off on the attack in the morning. That's the worst time because you feel like there's a spot light on you. You fl el like there's a spotlight right on you and you're all alone and every weapon is aimed at you. But once the first shot goes over your head, or you fire the first shot, you're not scared anymore. And the other time you're scared is when you're digging at night. That's ... I still - even up at the cabin, I hate be in a lighted room and then go out into the dark because they can see me and my night vision hasn't come back yeah. I used to have such good night vision that I used to walk around up there on that mountain and never use a flashlight or anything. JAS: Even during like a new moon, probably. BILL: No, just - I could just see. I don't know what it is. But if I'm out in it, in the dark, it's alright. It doesn't bother me. It's coming out of a lighted room into the dark. When you first dig in at night, if you don't dig in- when I say, "dig in," I mean you dig your fox hole. JAS: Yeah. BILL: That's what digging in is. JAS: Yup. BILL: And Dee Pasquale , the one kid in my squad, he always dig - hell, he'd dig that deep each night. You could hear him digging his hole. Everyone else would be in, he'd still be - we'd scrape some dirt away and then you get under an artillery garage and, boy, you could hear the entrenching tools, "Chop, chop, chop!" Everyone digging holes. But when you first dig in, yeah, that's pretty frightening. 48