“This is your lifeline, don’t cut it!”
Heroes Remember
“This is your lifeline, don’t cut it!”
The 12th SS Division were the ones
who shot some of our prisoners up in Abbaye,
their headquarters were in the Abbey,
it’s right up here. We had a muster parade,
I’ll never forget it.
I often wonder if anybody else is left alive
who would remember it.
And during the muster parade they
confirmed the murder of these guys and
they said under no circumstances will
revenge in kind be taken.
There will be no shooting of prisoners
in this army nor was there.
He said you must kill the enemy
in battle but not afterward.
They said something else at
that muster meeting.
They said always in training we used to
get breakdown in signals communications
but here in Normandy we haven’t a minute
that we didn’t have full signals communication.
Ya, I wanted to say that!
That was pretty pleasant.
Our lineman had a little tag
I know that we used to put on and
it used to say,
“This is your lifeline, don’t cut it!”
That’s true.
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