Night Attack!

I guess it would be best to describe it as, it was eye-opening. The first was, we took an attack at night. We hadn't been in the lines that long and the North Koreans, they use a sort of wave attacks. Like, one wave and another wave behind and another wave behind, like, it seemed like they had endless, endless, endless men, manpower and that. And it was pretty damn scary when the flares were going up and you could see all these, it looked like a bunch of ants crawling around, coming up the hills, and that, but you know, it, it was scary, but you knew you had a job to do and you had to do it, you know.

Interviewer: How did the Koreans or the Communists signal to one another or signal attacks?

Bugles.

Interviewer: Do you remember the sound of those bugles?

Oh yeah. You always heard them bugles going.

Interviewer: And you knew what was coming?

Oh, you knew immediately what was happening, and that. Personally, I thought it was kind of foolish on their part cause if you had some people sleeping in the trenches and you didn't know that an attack was coming and that, as soon as they started blowing them bugles, everybody knew what was, what was taking place, and that. So everybody was up and alert.