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I: -- lost any men that night. And early that morning, must have been about 5:30, daylight, just the light was coming in, I don't know when the light was moving, but early that morning, I woke my runner up. A runner is a guy that goes out, he's like a messenger, he checks on the different positions. And I said, "Go out and check so and so and so and so, you know everybody." And you tell him to go check the perimeter guard to make sure nothing had been breached or broken. And he came back and said everything's standing. And I was checking with the guard telling them to, the runner, I was explaining some other points of trying to get some supplies to them later in the day, when the shells started to come in. And it hit the slit trench about five yards from where I'd been standing, and this was a slit trench where I'd been sleeping the night before. My commo sergeant was still in the slit trench. He was flat on his back, I guess, fixing his rifle or whatever, but he was about three yards away in a slit trench parallel to mine. I was forced, as I mentioned, out of the slit trench, and a shell hit there and blew the dirt, knocked me down, and blew the dirt all over the commo sergeant and he was buried. But he was not wounded, because I dug him out later and he was white as a sheet, but luckily he was okay.

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