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Suddenly the Stone Moved

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Suddenly the Stone Moved

My runner, actually, was a man from Kenora. He was great. Anyway, one day he called me over and he said, “Sarge, see that stone out there, down there?” I said, “Yeah.” He says, “It wasn’t there yesterday.” I said, “How can a stone that size move?” He said, “Take a shot at it.” So he took a shot, nothing happened. “Take another shot.” The second shot, suddenly the stone moved alright. Suddenly a leg shot out of there and it was the Japanese sniper, but this sniper was a different kind. He didn’t carry a pistol, carried a little bag about that size. He carried about that much of rice as well. He could stay away from his base at least three weeks. But he had this bag of little, the Japanese grenade didn’t weigh one pound, they weighed half a pound. You could throw it the baseball way, but ours, we had to lob it. You know, you could break your arm if you, and when we inspected, he was dead. I reported my company commander. My company commander said, “You’re going to have us all tortured.” by my actions. But anyway, it was much better, because at night with these grenades, he’d come around and he’d throw them even though sometimes he probably didn’t know where we were. But a grenade can demoralize a good position right out of sight.

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