I don't know, I think we were more or less walking around like zombies, huh? Lack of sleep. You know, you can't sleep, so off-and-on kind of thing. We're too busy at night making a dugout and you can't sleep. In fact, you start to hallucinate because of a lack of sleep, you know. Bushes and small trees take on human forms, you know. You think you're going crazy. And, inside the dark foxhole, you see luminous green light. Yeah, actually. "What the heck, am I going crazy? What?" They told me that there are saps from the roots that we cut, you know, root ends. And, the sap is fluorescent. So, they look ghastly, you know, ghost-like. It's terrible! I thought I was going to go "Section Eight" there. But, the guys held on. Boy, they were attacking to the last day, those four guys in the weapon section. They'd give me, you know, a little grin and said, "hey, you still with us?" Tough, huh? And, they'd carry on with the attack. Oh, they were great. They were really great.
Interviewer: What do you think was the hardest on you during that battle to save the Lost Battalion?
Hardest? To see all our guys getting killed or hit like that. We lost all our chain of command, you know. It's hard. I don't know if I was only the medic left, but... this is a nightmare! So, when we finally got pulled out, we had only one truck load, maybe less than a truck load, pulled back to the kitchen area. And, our old Company commander, Captain Graham, was recovered from the wounds he received in Italy. He was waiting for us, and I can still see his face, you know, with disbelief when he saw us stumbling off of the truck and hiding back tears in his eyes. That's all that's left of his Company. I still see his face.
