“The Green Line”
Heroes Remember
“The Green Line”
I remember, well not a few times, quite a few times I'd have to
go to these outposts eh and they'd always have an imaginary line
between the Turks and the Greeks, called the green line
eh. There's one occasion, I just missed it by about twenty,
thirty, seconds eh, this... and the Canadian guard commander
tried to stop it, I think he was sergeant at the time. He saw
this Turkish soldier and they were sometimes only five, ten yards
apart. They weren't very far apart eh? This Turkish soldier
fell asleep on duty and the Turkish officer....., well the
Canadian sergeant saw him eh and he's trying to warn this guy but
he was trying to warn him indirectly because you're not
supposed to talk to these people, you know, directly and he saw
the Turkish officer walking up to the guy, taking out his gun,
"pume" bullet right in back of his head. A Turkish officer
apparently is allowed to shoot three of his men a month if they
do something incompetent like that. Like, and the Canadian
sergeant, he was just shook up, well I don't blame him, I
wouldn't want to see somebody get shot like that, you know.
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