Twice Wounded, Still Here!
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Twice Wounded, Still Here!
I was wounded twice during the war.
The first time was life threatening and
I remember the medic looking at me and
very closely and he said,
“Do you feel like coughing, Barr?”
and I said, “Well I was, ya, but
seems to have stopped now.”
He said, “Let me tell you something,
if that was one inch that way, you
wouldn’t be coughing, you’d be dead.”
Now something like that concentrates the
mind very well, yes it does!
But I was lucky in a way,
I was walking wounded for a couple of days
because we were on the move and
then they sent me right down here to Dorval
Truvil to a rest center and
I had a few days with them.
I was feeling quite well,
so I went back to the regiment while it was
healing up and I couldn’t dig any trenches or
anything but somebody else dug them for me.
I could operate the set and so I
think that did me a lot of good.
The second time I was hit was artillery fire.
The thing went through the side of a vehicle,
both skins of it, through a bag of earphones and
stuck in my leg.
And the medical officer pulled it out
with a pair of tweezers.
Oh dear, young and tough,
really I guess that was it…yep.
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