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Dan Volker wrote:
> If you were in a group of 20 persons, huddled under cover, as terrorists
> sprayed gunfire above your heads, how would you feel about a moron next to
> you, urging the group to stand up, out of cover, and run away----and you
> knowing full well this would put all in the line of fire, causing members of
> your group to die immediately.....would you defend this moron's right to
> express his opinion???

I have no idea how you even heard about this incident.

But there were only about six of us, not twenty.  And I still think Pia
(I think that was her name) was right when she said to go forward.  (Pia
was the fair haired young Dutch woman that I had the hots for.)

With the concave hill, plus the flat bunker, the bullets were actually a
lot further overhead once I got in close.  But I could certainly hear
them.  Like they say in the Clint Eastwood movie "Heartbreak Ridge", you
never forget the sound of an AK-47 aimed at you.

I had already figured out after we were all in cover, that the long
breaks to change magazines, and the continuing overs, meant that it was
probably target practice by some of the reservists on the kibbutz.  And
that is what it was.

But some loudmouth had to come forward.

Wrolf

Wrolf's Wreck: http://www.concentric.net/~Wrolf

P.S.  At the request of Ken Sallot <kens@ac*.ne*>, I am
"keep[ing] this shit off of Cavers."

P.P.S.  I am neither brave, nor is this an attempt to claim some such. 
In fact the whole thing scared me so much, that for a long time
afterward, I would do things like jump behind walls and try to drag my
fiancee with me, if an electric line in the street crackled and banged.

P.P.P.S.  We could not retire laterally, because the minefield stretched
on both sides.  Also it was totally overgrown, and the escarpment slope
of the Golan Heights.  We could not retire to the rear, because then the
overs would stop being, well, over.  And there was less cover.

P.P.P.P.S. I married Debbie, who I met later.  I wonder what happened to
Pia?

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