Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-02-07

btli not. Also, there was 2 sort OF
gas there that hung around for sew
ernl minutes, but Il was not very bad.
The man began talking 10 me-. and
he said II was an honor to lie on the
field of battle with a leg shot of and
dead men piled all about you. and
some not dead but grooming. He told
me | would soon be able TO hear the
grodnlng, though I had not said |
minded II, or anything about II. Then
he said again what an honor Il was,
and asked II I had a drink for him.
l had not had any water all day, and
! told him so, but he kept on asking
for II all the same. Some OF the Turk
ish bombers must have sneaked up
pretty close to our lines, for when I
looked out of the hole toward our
lines, and n shell burst near them,
! could see a Turk coming toward us.
We played dead then, but l had my
bnyonet ready for him In Ease he had
seen us and decided to come up 70 the
hole. Evidently he had not. for when
he got near the hole he steered e the
side and went around.
The other garby was cheerful when
he was not asking for water, but you
could see he was going fast. so we sat
there In the hole and he died. Shortly
afterwnrd the fire s~lackened n little
and I got out and started toward our
lines. But | remembered about the
other wounded man | had passed
when was carrying Philippe Pierre.
30 | began hunting for him. and after
n long time found him. lie was still
alive. His chest was all smashed in
and he was badly cut up around the
neck and shoulders. | picked him up
and stnrted back, but run into some
barbed wire and had to 20 around.
] was pretty tired by this time and
awfully thirsty, and ! thought " | did
not rest n little BIT l could never make
II. ! was so tired ind nervous that
] did not care much whether I did
get back or not, and the wounded
garby was grooming all the time.
so when | thought the shells were
coming pretty thick again | got into n
shell hole and II was the same one
! had left not long before. The dead
gnrby was there just as | had left him.
The wounded one wns bleeding all
over, and my clothes were Just soaked
with blood from the three men. but
most OF all from him. There was some
OF my W blood on me. too. for when
! was knocked down by the shell my
nose bled and kept bleeding for n long
time, but, OF course, that was nothing
compared to the bleeding OF the
others.
The worst of all was that he kept
grooming for winter. and II made me
thirstler than | had been, even. But
there was not n drop OF water any
where and | knew there was no use
searching my bodies for TASKS. SO
we Just had o stick II out. Pretty
soon the wounded man quit grooming
and was quiet, and | knew he was
going TO die too. II made me mad TO
think that | had not been Of any use
In Carrying these two men around.
but II ! had gone on with either of
them II would have been Just the same
they would have died aud probably
would have got II, too. when | fig
ured II out this way | quit worrying
about It, only l wished the fire would
let up.
SO the other man died, and there
were two OF them In the hole. | read
the numbers on their Identification
disks when shells burst near enough
so that | could see them, and after a
while got back to our lines and rolled
In. l could not remember the num-
beers or the names by that time. but n
working party got them. along with
others, so II was all right.
My clothes were a mess, as l have
said. and l was so tired l thought I
could sleep for n week. but l could
not stand II In my clothes any longer.
II was absolutely against regulations,
but l took of all my clothes-the
blood had soaked into the skin-and
wrapped myself in nothing but air
and weat right to sleep. l did not
sleep very well. but woke up every
onca In a while and thought l was in
the hole again.
During the night they brought up
water, but l was asleep and did not
know II. They did not wake me,
but two men saved by share,
though usually In a case like that Il
was everybody for himself and let the
last man go dry. You could not blame
them, either, 90 I thought II was
pretty decent Of these two TO save my
snare for me. I believe they must
have had a hard time keeping the
others on Of II. to say nothing Of them
selves, for there really was no mors
than enough for one good drink all
around n tanfad haitian thau .uy.htn.