I would say about a week or ten days
after we ran over a mine, a Teller mine.
One of the tanks was coming down the road
so we moved over about two feet off
the road on the verge and we run
over a Teller mine.
I was in the back end of the truck,
there was three of us across the back end
of the truck standing, we were going down
the highway and all at once I heard this big
boom and I looked up in the air and
there was the front tire about
twenty feet up in the air.
The two personnel beside me,
they got wounded pretty bad and there was
a corporal and a driver also got wounded.
Myself, nothing happened to me, of course,
I didn’t realize it at the time it
give me a perforated ear drum.
There was bombing every night,
shelling every night and you were around
that type of stuff you never noticed it, you know,
but my ears have been ringing
for seventy years now.