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Show ~ose (1/2)/83) nage 2h Mr. K Mr. R shell hit about 20 feet away. Then you go out on boat observer duty, that's me: you got to go out and shoot and hit them when you get a mission. You stand on a hill and there's silence, nothing's ~oving out there. You don't stand on a hill because you don't silhouette yourself against the sky by any ~eans, but you know, you can't hide all of your movement, but you at least stay and defolate on the rear side of the hill and then you crawl over the top of the hill. ~esumably you're supposed to do that, it isn't always done. You see an infantry man send out a squad, and you what you can see from there, and you see these guys walk out ¢fa quarter of a mile into the valley, and then you see or you hear something like firecrackers and then you see these guys scattering like hell and you see a guy fall ••• what the hell do you call that? I mean, you don't call that war, and here's this great big war wit millions and millions of men in it, and you see war in terms of one guy getting hit, two guys getting hit out 8 or 10 or how ever many they send out in the squad or platoon, and they run like hell because nobody's a hero, and they run so far and then they stop, then they get together and then they crawl back up that hill ••• sometimes they stay there, then sometimes you see mortar fire coming down, you see the shells ¢¢~tii ~¢~i exploding among them and you hope nobody gets hit. I venture to say that I've seen 35, 40, 50 incidents like that, not always the same 8 to 15 men involved, but rarely do you see a hit. Rarely do you see the enemy hit or your own people hit? Your own people hit. Rarely do you see them. Somebody dies, there no question about it, but I didn't see a hell of a lot o~ people |
