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Show J M .F LKN R R 1 20 under tand orne but not like I did there." He said ~w 11 y u n d d that and if y u r tart needing it it will come back " which I thought was very nice. I aid, H w ab ut my wife when she says to me 'I want you to go down to such and such. It's at 300 West and 500.' And I said 'Don't give me those. Tell me what it's across from. I don't kn w where 300 North is and 500 West. I don't know those things. "' And she said, "I don t understand how you ever found you way around in the Service." And I said, "It was just a gift." And it was. So many gifts I had in the Service and I don't take them lightly, either. I'm grateful for them because I was preserved so many times. I can remember one time, you know what a spent round is? BEC: Yes. JIM: And they go by you, thuuuu, thuuuu, thuuuu, thuuuu. You can hear when they go by you: thuuuu, thuuuu, thuuuu, thuuuu. You don't hear them before. And someone says to me, "Here comes a shell; here comes artillery." No, man, the artillery when you hear it, buzzzzzzzz, it's gone! You know, it's somewhere back there or somewhere here. That's why we never hit the ground. Someone said to me, "How come he doesn't hit the ground?" Well, I knew it that it was gone, you know. That's when one of the guys said, "Well, he has a death wish." BEC: I see. JIM: And I didn't. It's just that I knew that was gone. I didn't take too many chances; I took some but, well, you have to take some, but not too many. But I think I was preserved because just of the acute ability of the senses to become really alert. You heard better, you saw better. I saw things-! could see things that were miles off that were, that even with good eyes, when I got out of the Service, I couldn't see. I could see things in trees 38 |
