Working in the mines

When we went to Japan I was out shoveling, we were shoveling ore off of a car. They were loading these big freight cars with stuff they were taking this nickel out of. All of a sudden while I was shoveling I just started getting dizzy and then I fell. I didn’t even know that I had passed out and I fell down in this here chute and when I fell down, they had bars, big bars across this different ways so the building wouldn’t collapse when they put all this ore in. So the guy said, “I figured you were dead because,” he said, “when you went down there you hit on your back,” and he said, “your head touched your feet.” He said, “You bent right around backwards,” he said and then he said, “you fell off of this bar and you fell down in the bottom of a pit.” He said, “I figured you were finished.” So they said they went down, he said they went down and they picked me up and put me on a stretcher and they had a door in the side that they could get in to the building and they took me out that way and they took me to this place in, that we, was supposed to be the hospital but it wasn’t really a, it was just run by sergeants, that’s all. There was no doctor there or that, so they laid me on this board and they put a bag, a sandbag on my feet so I couldn’t move and then sandbags on the side of me so that I laid there just on my back all the time like that. I was there for about, oh, it must have been four months or more.