Pests
Heroes Remember
Transcript
In a country torn by war, rats and other pests may be a good
source of protein for some starving locals but for most
Canadians, it’s quite a different story…
At night, while we were on guard, we'd hear noises and we’d think
it was the enemy or a patrol coming up the hill. But no, it
was the rats, making noise in the barbed wire.
It was infested, of course. It was war time, you’d get infested.
We’d be in the bunkers laying down, now you’d be well covered
Soldier sitting in a bunker, reading a letter.
up and everything else, but you’d feel them running over you. Well it was so bad we used to stay awake for past time and shoot at the rats. I seen one going up one of the poles of the bunker with a Hershey bar in its mounth so... He didn’t get the Hershey bar but the guy that ate the Hershey bar he died of, we call it Manchuriam fever. We got fleas from, probably from the rats. My sleeping bag started to move around so I jumped, you better believe it. I grabbed the bag by the end and out came a snake.Soldier cleaning out his sleeping bag.
I was afraid of snakes. One night, I fired about 50 shots into one of them.Description
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- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 2:19
- Person Interviewed:
- War Korean
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Korean War
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