I Killed a Prisoner
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I was sent back 14 days one time to
guard prisoners in the echelon area.
The incident there, I don't know if I feel like talking about it, you know.
It's a dirty situation. I killed a prisoner. I killed a prisoner there.
What happened was we were guarding prisoners
and there was barbed wire, barbed wire all around
and this is temporary holding unit until the units come
and pick them up and take them back or elsewhere.
And I told my buddy, I said, “You be careful.”
He would give them cigarettes, feeling sorry for them, you see,
he would give them cigarettes and stuff like that
and I said, “You be careful.”
I said, “they'll cut your throat just as fast,” you know.
At one point we came across he was facing this way,
we were on the board walk, you know,
a board walk and prisoners are on both sides.
I heard a gurgle and I looked back
and there a prisoner had him, you know.
I don't know where he got a knife or whatever else he had,
whatever he had in his hand but he had him, the other guard like this.
Even today I don't know how quick I acted in that situation
but I came down with a butt of the rifle in the back of his head,
knocked his eyeballs right out of his socket, you know.
And it's a dirty thing you know.
After, I was sent back on the front lines.
There was a group of people, you know, that were investigators, you know.
They come and questioned me over and over and over,
over that, you know, and I often say that
what would you have expected me to do, you know?
Let the situation go, turn my back on it?
But I knew my responsibility,
I thought that was my responsibility to protect my fellow guard.
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