The Highland Light Infantry (Part 3 of 3)
Heroes Remember
The Highland Light Infantry (Part 3 of 3)
And they had laid them out and they had their names stencilled
on the back of the packs, so the packs are laid on the ground,
they're all blank out white, yellow-white, you know. And by this
time, it's getting dark, you know, the moon is coming up over
the trees and you can think of this as eerie, you know, with
the, with these, all these white packs laid out on the road, and
they're laid out in threes in order of their, sixteen and the
same with the, the other groups of company packs. There were,
there were few, more left then, then the "A" Company but "A"
Company took the worst casualties. But still, it was terrible,
and, and we started crying, frankly. The tears, you know, just
made you feel terrible. So I called, I called that story "The
Price" because that's the price, you know, with war.
You know it's, very emotional.
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