Elephant Grass
Heroes Remember
Elephant Grass
Transcript
Going from point A to point B and grass
here is soft and comfortable to walk on.
The type of grass there, as they call it
elephant grass, and some of it is the butts
where it comes out of the ground is
as big as your finger and it stands ten
feet high and it's called grass,
it's called elephant grass.
And when you're walking back from your
air field and you're walking though a path
that's been say half the width of this room,
and you're walking back towards your
villa and you hear rustling in the grass,
you don't know what it is.
And this sort of, you get that sort of
feeling in the back of your neck,
the hair on the back of your neck is
starts to stand up because you're not
sure what's in there, what's possibly there.
Now it could be anything.
It could be a small animal just moving
around through the grass or it could
be a large animal too. So you get,
you had your times that you were concerned.
Description
Mr. Knapton recalls what it was like walking through a field in the Congo.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 1:04
- Person Interviewed:
- Ron Knapton
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Canadian Armed Forces
- Branch:
- Army
- Rank:
- Warrant Officer
- Occupation:
- Cryptographer
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