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Mr. Reitsma recalls feeling pity toward the children that would follow the troops looking for handouts, but not letting his guard down.
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Those little kids, they just, they followed you everywhere because they knew they were going to get a pair of socks, or something to put over their hands, or anything to wear, something to eat. Interviewer: You were a kid yourself and here kids...Well we were kids yeah, but these were little kids you know, 7-8 years old. Anything that... Anything, that's a terrible way to put it but, if a kid was 14 or 15 you just made dog gone sure that he was ahead of you all the time. And your machine gun never came off of, on safety, it was ready to go at any time.Interviewer: Is that right? And I was machine gunner all the time I was there so you... Everybody wore white, you didn't know who you were talking to because white was their mourn, their, like we use black in our country here, they use white. And everybody was dressed in white, even the little kids, but the teenagers were the ones you had to fear.