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Show War) and b in bed to a six by truck. They d be coming back. w th 'r am t 1 d. and you d hear clank". You look down and there's a god damn grenad with th firing pin and the spoon gone, hissing away, rolling along the deck of the truck. Y u know you try to jump out of the truck and everything else. Boy you want to get the hell away from there. Man, you look up at the front, and here's two guys up front of the truck laughing. So they've unscrewed the firing mechanism, the cap and the fuse, poured the powder out, put it back together, pulled the pin, let the spoon fly, and drop it on the deck. Then all it does is go pop! They think it's real funny. Well, Giddly fired a rifle grenade. He carried a rifle grenade. We had a kid name White that had just come overseas. Guam was over. We were just training for Iwo Jima. We didn't know it then, but we were training. Giddly was sitting there with this hand grenade. He said, "I wonder how these work?" And White says, "Oh, I'll show you how they work." And Giddly handed him the hand grenade. "See this? This is called the spoon." Giddly was a combat man. He'd been in combat. He'd been on Bougainville, and he'd been on Guam, and he was going up to Iwo Jima. He knew what a hand grenade was. He said, "Well, I don't understand what you mean?'' So he pulled the pin, pulled the pin out of this grenade. He started easing the spoon out, but boy all you could see was ass holes and elbows. We're getting out of this tent! This guy's nuts! White says, "See that? You can see the firing pin. It's just a little round thing on a spring, and it's got a little tip on it, and that goes up and hits-it's a bullet primer is all it is. It hits it, and then there ' s a little train of powder that goes down to a dynamite cap, 93 |
