Surrender

It was Corrigan that, that, that told us we better stack our rifles.
You, you're familiar with those, the little wire, heavy, heavy wire hooks, short wire hooks that when, when the butts are down and the, and the muzzles are up, and these hook together and then they're piled, rifles are piled around in a little pyramid. And, and Corrigan whispered to me, he said, "Take out the bullet and throw it down that ravine and that will be one, one rifle that will never be used against us. And the bullet is gone." I remember that.
Well, when our officers ordered us to fall in and Bernie, Bernie Whalen, he had a brother who was a sergeant, Sergeant Whalen. This Bernie Whalen, he was very slow about falling in and the Jap officer gave an order and one of the, one of the Japs ran at, ran at Bernie Whalen with his, the bayonet was staked on his rifle, and he ran at Whalen, and Whalen grabbed the blade, the bayonet, with both hands and hung onto it so tightly that the Jap couldn't get that away. And the Jap officer gave one more order and two more Japs came in from behind and drove the bayonets into Whalen, Bernie Whalen's back, and, and that was the most horrible thing. It, it was, it was ghastly, it was ghastly.