"I often think about those moments, how I survived.  I mean, there was no water to wash, there was, you just tried to survive the best way you could.  The clothes, well, I had a German belt that I took off a German prisoner, I had a German bayonet.  I had German boots which were way too big for me, so I would stuff newspapers in those boots so I wouldn’t lose them.  For awhile I had a German helmet, but that thing, when I put it down over my head, you know, I couldn’t see anything.  And if I was running the helmet kept going up and down, so I discarded that.  I figured 'to heck with it.'”

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