“The tide was coming in so fast, the people were holding hands, I guess a lot of them couldn’t swim but they were holding hands till they got out of the boat. You had these half tracks that were goin’ up and they were poppin’ them off like crazy even the people, we were all together there and a lot of them got hit. You could see em’ goin’ over.”

“There were bodies all over the place, blood, arms, legs, the water was pretty red. You felt pretty bad when you see one of your own dead, it was pretty hard to take it.”

“ I never said much about it, because I don’t want to keep remembering it. The less I talk about it, the better it is.”