Thoughts on Survival

We had crawl trenches so deep, some places this deep, depending on the bottom, you see. You’d try to lay down as low as possible but then this is why, you know, I had many times, I’d get up and I’d be soaking wet, sometimes in frosty ground, you know, but then as a young person and trained you’re very anxious to get out there and be involved but being there and directly involved, and realizing that live ammunition being shot at you, and when you hear, “pshh, pshh, pshh”, you know that something’s going by there, over your head, it’s a different matter. You survive one, you don’t care about what happened yesterday. If you were bombarded yesterday you try to forget that and you try to survive now what’s going on, now, you see. But you’re not, you’re not a superman and you cannot, no one can tell me that you’re never been scared in situations like that, no one can. You’re not a human if you’re not.