Were You Scared?

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Generally, fear was not a topic of discussion in the trench at the front line. But, according to Mr. Nickerson, it was very much a part of everyone's experience.

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Everybody is scared. Anybody that says they weren't scared or didn't have apprehensions about it and that is either crazy or they don't know what they're talking about. There's always that fear of, of, you know, "Here I am. I'm laying out here by myself, you know. All by myself and there's more people around but," you know. So I mean, yeah, you get apprehensive about it, but you, you know, you just push that to the back of your mind. And the North Koreans, and that, were not all that quiet so you knew they were coming. It wasn't like that they were sneaking around very quietly, and that. Although, they did have people that could, you know, that could come up into your wire and stuff like that and dismantle your booby traps and you wouldn't know they'd been there except in the morning you'd see that parts of the booby trap layed out on the, in sequence on the, on a piece of white cloth.

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