So I had some sand sprayed in the side of my face. Half a second later, I heard dut-dut-dut-dut-duh. It was machine gun fire. It was the first round, the first burst of an hour-long firefight. What had happened was the bullet hit, a bullet hit three or four inches from the side of my head. Imagine, just think about it, because I certainly did, think about the angle of deviation that saved my life. At 400 meters, it missed me by three inches. Just think about the math on that. Every guy up there had some experience like that, at least once, if not many times.
有些沙子在我侧脸扬起,半秒之后,我就听到了嗒嗒嗒的声音。是机关枪在扫射。第一轮扫射长达一个小时。之前就是子弹射击,一颗子弹从距离我头部三四英寸的地方爆炸。想象一下吧,我想就是这三四英寸的距离救了我一命。在400米开外,子弹在三英寸的地方错过了我。用数学计算一下吧,那里的男孩子们至少有一次有这样的经历,如果没有很多次的话。
The boys are up there for a year. They got back. Some of them got out of the Army and had tremendous psychological problems when they got home. Some of them stayed in the Army and were more or less okay, psychologically. I was particularly close to a guy named Brendan O'Byrne. I'm still very good friends with him. He came back to the States. He got out of the Army.
战士们在那里呆了一年。他们回来了。有些人离开了部队,回到家中时,已有很严重的心理问题。有些人依旧呆在部队里,心理上还算良好。我和一个叫Brendan O’Byrne的士兵关系很好。我们现在仍然是很要好的朋友。他回到了美国,离开了部队。
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