One of the worst things you’d ever have to shout: ‘I’m not dead yet’
Such was the anguished cry of PFC Donald Moore in February 1971 while walking point on a patrol and taking fire first from in front of him and then from his own comrades behind him, who didn’t know where he was. (P. 112, Keith William Nolan, Sappers in the Wire: The Life and Death of ...
Such was the anguished cry of PFC Donald Moore in February 1971 while walking point on a patrol and taking fire first from in front of him and then from his own comrades behind him, who didn't know where he was. (P. 112, Keith William Nolan, Sappers in the Wire: The Life and Death of Firebase Mary Ann.)
Such was the anguished cry of PFC Donald Moore in February 1971 while walking point on a patrol and taking fire first from in front of him and then from his own comrades behind him, who didn’t know where he was. (P. 112, Keith William Nolan, Sappers in the Wire: The Life and Death of Firebase Mary Ann.)
The “yet” is the word that really gets to me.
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