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>That Mothers day morning I think we got the first or >near the first incomming mortar fire when our 6 mau >temporary tent was hit directly with one 60mm mortar >that killed Michael Schroeder outright with a direct >hit next to his head. That round injured 3 others with >schrapnel. My assistnat gunner Rick Peoples from >Alabama was hit in legs and crotch with full force of >the round that severed an artery in his leg. My gunner >Glenn Clendennon from Victoria, TX was also hit with >schrapnel as were two others in out tent to a lesser >degree. As I stood to react anotherv two rounds hit >just outside our tent which killed our two pet puppies >and hit me in my left upper arm as well as some of the >spent pieces of hot metal burned into my upper lip and >chest causing some burns. > >Our immediate picture was deafness from the round >along with pitch black...cordite smell...dust...and >feathers from the blown up sleeping bags. When hearing >returned we all heard the severely injured Rick >peoples screams with schrpnel wounds to his crotch and >legs. When we finally got a flahlight we saw that Rick >had a spurting artery that had to be picnched off. It >was a virtual impossibility in the dark screaming >smoking feather ridden hell within that tent but we >were able to grap Rick from moving enough to find the >mushy sguirming crotch wound and find the spirting >artery and I pinched it hard enough to stop it from >bleeding. Blood is the slickest substance you can >imagine and stopping a man from bleeding is the most >uncertain thing in the world. >Clendennnon held the artery until I could crawl to the >FDC hoothch for the medic. The medic saved Rick'life >that night in that hellish tent. >After we got Rick evact we gathered in the FDC. The XO >and the Captain relayed to us that our perimeter that >adjoined the Chopper pad was being overrunn. We >proceeded to sction 2 that was layed on the right >night fire azmuth and we fired 6 firecracker rounds >high angle that mcovered from our front perimeter to >the pads. we had a morning count of 21 KIA sappers. >That is what was reported to us and is what was stated >on my bronze star citation.
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