why don't you like to talk about the
argon
who's asking just me
stories get bigger over time you never
went to france
no i'm not that big everything they say
happened
happened it's just that the telling of
it gets a little
better how much better
we were pinned down in a gully
we were there about three days i guess
it had been raining for about a week
so some of the fellas and i we hunkered
down the foxhole and we just waited for
the weather to break
a writer from the times was with us
now you know i never drank but it was so
cold and so
wet i started to take a few slugs off
the flask
easy there carter let's stop them melt
your teeth yeah
they're good tell me again surrender
ow
if you have no way out you lay down your
rifle and you'll gave her out
otherwise they'll shoot you
we're nearly out of ammo we're down to
about nine fellas and we had this plan
that we were gonna speak enough german
to get us out of there take our chances
in a war camp
all through the night the fighting
continued until we were all out of ammo
sitting ducks and we had been up for 36
hours
at the drinking okay fellas we ain't
taking this spot anytime soon
so let's call it a night and try again
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i don't know how long i was there but it
had to have been a few hours because by
that time the jerry's had taken the box
hole
but i was so covered up they never saw
me and i never saw them
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i knew we were goners so i jumped up and
i yelled eat
it out
they thought i was one of them so they
just dropped their weapons
they just gave up
he get it off i'm unarmed it was right
about then that i started to have a
really
bad feeling carter it was all sorted out
lieutenant thought it was best if we all
just kept our mouth shut one for the
times private
but the chips fall where they may
and then the story got bigger president
gave you a medal
i would have made liars out of all of
ellis we were stuck
it's a lot of responsibility for a young
man
i grew up pretty fast
it's quite a story and now you know
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are we still friends
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you