I was lucky

Well, then that night they threw the heavy stuff over, God. It was about the only time I think I was really a little bit scared was that heavy stuff coming over. God, if one of those great big heavy naval guns land, shells land, they sure dug a big hole, you had no chance. With a rifle or a machine gun bullet, now there you had a chance, with a flesh wound. That didn’t bother you at all, but those big heavy ones, they come within, very close to one of them. There was a shell landed, a smaller shell landed, oh, to the left of us. We just reached our objectives. Jim Greenblatt and I, we, there was a little shell hole there just big enough, oh, for our heads to get in, you might say. Our legs and rear ends sticking out, we didn’t care about that. This here shell, small shell hole we were in there, and this here big shell landed way over to our left. It was the hunk about the size of a peanut shell, be the size of your little finger nail, close to something about the size of that. This, if I’d been turned a little more, it might have taken the whole face off of me. I was lucky enough just only got a flesh wound in my mouth, on my lip there. You can’t hardly notice it now.