World War Two veteran's fear of dying in battle.
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EnglishVoice Age
Senior (55+)Accents
North American (General) North American (US New York, New Jersey, Bronx, Brooklyn)Transcript
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when the boat landed, I jumped out with my rifle and ran straight toward those german sharpshooters. I mean that those were the orders that they that we was given bullets flying by my head, kids dying all around me screaming and crying and blood and, and **** everywhere, You know? All these years later I still can't go to the beach because the ship I saw that day at Normandy. Anyway, I finally fell in the sand behind the bodies of two dead american kids. I used them for protection from the nazi bullets. I laid there in the sand. It felt like hours. I don't know how long it was. It was a long time smoking cigarettes, drinking water from my canteen and and and and not knowing what to do. I couldn't go forward anymore because I knew I'd get shot, but I couldn't retreat because there was no place to retreat to. What was I going to go into the water and become a fish. You know, even though we took the beach and we destroyed those ******* nazis up in their bunkers and I'm very, very proud of that. I still have nightmares about guts, kids dying and **** and bloody ocean water. I still, all these years later, I still have these nightmares. They just don't stop