I got word that I was to be looking for snipers and he said Grace give me the glasses I'll look I said no you get yourself killed and all of a sudden I heard that we have very similar saying no atheists or voxels that's right can you describe that if a person we've had kids and I think every war has them we've had kids say I'm looking out for myself if I get killed it's my fault that's the end of it some of us will say I'm going to hope God will help me get through
this battle no atheists and foxholes though I've seen him yell and scream and help oh God help me I've I've heard it time and time again and they won't tell you but they'll they'll pray you could see their their praying but they would never tell you and you don't you don't bother them when you know a man might be part you're leaving alone you never say a thing to him you don't question him but that started on guadal Canal no atheists and foxholes really and it spread to every other battles I use that expression uh
several times in battle what's that I said I've used that expression several times in battle but you made a deal with God I made a deal with God I made a pledge I broke the pledge but God understood the whole situation when I hit the beach I was terrified I had my face right down on the sand I was so scared everything the screaming and the yelling I just said Lord I said I don't know I don't know much about you at all I know you exist I I know you are and if you could
help me get me all this I don't know serve you the rest of my life and I got a hunch there were a lot of kids on that beach praying too where else would you go what would you do well to make it real short he got me off that Island in six weeks he never really got me until nine years later that was nine years after the war I had something happen to me that I felt so ashamed we were on the North End we had about two weeks to go they finally pulled the
big Bonsai on us huh and it's it's funny in the daytime you don't see anything you don't see anything at all at at two o'clock in the morning that's when it happened when you can't you fight in sleep and that's when they start blowing horns and bells they're screaming and yelling they're coming at you and you do you you do your best you want to make every shot count and yes a few of us would get it but we would just kill them knock them all down lay them down well what happened we stayed in
that hole that night or that night and the next morning there were three of us we made it got through it and uh we got I got word that I was to be looking for snipers so I got up and I why I took my glasses on the ground like my elbows and I'm looking around look I couldn't see I think it was all quiet couldn't spot a thing I was there about 15 minutes when I dropped back down and I said and I said there's nothing going on out there so I phoned in and
I told them no snipers they said keep looking because they know where we're at they're shooting us back up here I said 10-4 by the way he said you've got a kid coming for your replacement I said we can use them and so if I kid you all over the whole whose Graves and I said I am come on in here and he jumped in the hole and he said what do you want me to do and I said sit down over here get a live dude later on tonight I said well I gotta be
looking and he says Grace give me the glasses I'll look I said no you get yourself killed one of my buddies says give them your glasses that's what he's here for I threw the glasses and we got up and we're shooting the breeze he's up here looking then all of a sudden he fell back his helmet rolled off between my feet when it stopped I looked down in the helmet I was shocked all three of us were just stunned we didn't expect that that sniper thought that was me he was ready for me and there
was a little a young beer a beautiful girl sitting in the in a chair and on her lap was a baby I lost it I got up and screamed and yelled and shook my fist in the air and say courtesy with Jima Curse God for letting that kid take my place that's I didn't understand and yet days before I was praying for help well we formed in and told him what happened we got into another hole and same story until the end and all of a sudden nothing was happening they were down there by the
water and it was either come at us and die or go in the water and be shot in the water hey everybody I'm Sean Ryan click here to subscribe to the Sean Ryan Show YouTube channel for the hottest and most compelling interviews that you will not see anywhere else I've also made a playlist of all the previous SRS episodes so they're easy to find you can find that right here
