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  • Why don't you like to talk about the Aragon?

  • Who's asking?

  • Just me stories get bigger over time.

  • He never went to France.

  • You know, I'm not that big.

  • Everything they say happened, happened.

  • It's just that the telling of it gets a little better, so much better.

  • We were pinned down in the gully.

  • Yes, You're 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.

  • We just waited for the weather to break.

  • A writer from the Times was with us.

  • Now, you know, I never drink, but it was so cold and so wet.

  • Start to take a few slugs on what?

  • Easy there carter stuff will melt your teeth.

  • Yeah, good.

  • Tell me again.

  • Each give a surrender how we gave out.

  • If you have no way out, you lay down your right foot and you'll each gave her out, otherwise they'll shoot you.

  • He gave it out.

  • We're nearly out of ammo.

  • You'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.

  • Obama sitting ducks.

  • And we have been up for 36 hours at the drinking.

  • Okay, fellas.

  • We ain't taking this spot any time soon.

  • So let's call it a night and try again.

  • Yeah.

  • Mhm.

  • I don't know how long I was there, but I had to have been a few hours because by that time the jerries had taken the foxhole.

  • But I was so covered up.

  • They never saw me and I never saw them.

  • Mhm.

  • Mhm.

  • Mhm.

  • Mhm.

  • Excuse me?

  • I knew we were goners.

  • So I jumped up and I yelled, get out.

  • They thought I was one of them.

  • So they just dropped their weapons.

  • They just gave up.

  • He'd get it off.

  • I'm unarmed.

  • He 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 mouths shut.

  • One for the times private.

  • But the chips fall where they may enough.

  • And then the story got bigger.

  • President gave you a medal that would have made liars out of all the fellas 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, we're still friends.

  • Yeah.

  • Yeah.

  • Mhm.

Why don't you like to talk about the Aragon?

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