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Show ALBERTO GUZMAN February 10, 2006 JAS: What was that morning like? Do you remember that day? ALB: Oh, yeah, I'll never forget. I was sleeping, you know. I woke up and I looked down from my bunk, you know, they had a big piece of paper, a newspaper or something and it said: "U.S. At War!" I couldn't figure it out. And all of a sudden, they come over and told us about it: "Japan just bombed Pearl Harbor." And then I knew we was in war then. But I read it in a paper when they brought the paper and through it in the barracks to let us know that we was at war. Five minutes later, they come over with this: "Full field pack and out in the woods." We had to go out in the woods, you know. JAS: What did they say? ALB: With a full field pack, you know, like a big pack, seventy-two pounds. And they took us all out in the woods, you know, away from the building because they were afraid Japan may make it up there, you know, flying bombs. And they took us out. And that's when I knew we was at war. A lot of guys, you know, my company, some of them, they're silly. They say, "Oh, good thing we're trained good for this because we're in it now." But weren't in war with Germany; we went and invaded all of these little countries first, you know. So after we took all of these countries, then we got equipment coming in from England, from the United States and we built up a pretty good army. But that's smart, ain't it? We had people that were smart. Generals, you know, they were smart. They figured it out, how to get to Hitler. 32 |
