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Show always look to the people on either side of you that it going to b them n t y u. hat' probably one of the reasons that there are a lot of people still suffering m ntally from Vietnam and from the Second World War and from Korea and there will be suffering from Kuwait and from Iraq because "why was it them and not me?' Why was he killed and not me? And for a long time they feel guilty that they lived. My feelings are, and maybe it's bad to say, but "it's better them than me." Now, I'm sorry, but isn't that the truth? Isn't it better that somebody else dies, not you? That's the only life I've got! I don't care about his life. Why, I care about it, but if somebody's going to get popped, why, I'll see you buddy. Maybe you believe in something and you' ll have a hereafter. I don't. That does prey on their mind, preys bad on their mind, that "Why is it me?" And they can't come to grips with it. They feel, well, I don't know exactly what the word would be, but they feel-they appreciate it that's it's them that's alive, but they feel guilty that they are alive. JAS: But you don' t. BILL: No, no I don't. I took the same chances everybody else took. I took more chances than anybody else took. Those people were always raising hell with me that I shouldn't do that; "you're taking too many chances." Well, maybe for somebody else it wouldn't have worked. It did for me, and no, I don't feel bad about it, and I also don't feel bad about how many people I killed, because I killed a bunch. I'm sorry, and that sounds harsh, but I killed a bunch; and had they allowed me to, I'd have killed more. If I hadn't got old, I'd still be doing it. Just like I told you, if whoever I shot, if it saved another marine's life for maybe just a minute, or ten minutes, or a day, or maybe the 119 |
