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Mr. Perdue describes some of the devastating injuries he witnessed while overseas.
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See so many people over there, you know, badly hurt. There was one young lad over there had his lungs where had been ruined by gas, too, and he was coughing and spit up something on the floor. I mean pink, you know. Maybe a bit of a carrot, that was part of his lung. Same as pink meat, and on the floor there. He didn’t live very long. He died. His lungs were pretty bad, rotted away, I guess, with the gas. One man there, I saw there, he had to … had to have one arm off and one leg off and the top of his head blown off too. He had a tin can on his head, tap it like that, you know, a tin can. You know, like a tin can, his hair was back over again. But it didn’t last long though. It was all off, he was in bad shape. One guy I saw too, came through and his face was all off, all part of his jaw. All he had was two holes for his nose. The rest was all blown off. Seen an awful lot of sights over there, when we went over there. Terrible sights there, people wounded.