Nearly Drowned While Sleeping
Heroes Remember
Nearly Drowned While Sleeping
Well, people they know their positions in there.
Germans well dug in. You start moving in closer.
They wait until you come real close, then they open up and you
got no chance to run. Where you going to run?
Mud, stuck to your mud. You’ve got, dig your slit trenches,
people lived, dig that deep, you get down there, before you
realize you’re a foot in the water. You’re in mud and
water most of the time in Ortona. Like muck, muck land
you know, real muck you know. I know one night, time I was so
beat, I lay down, woke up, my kit bag, everything in that pack,
the bed roll I had with me, it was just the head showing above.
It was all in the water. I fell asleep,
just about drowned there, you know.
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