Tony Taylor: My first night in Vietnam
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At about what I call o'dark thirty, which is about two o'clock in the morning, I heard thunder and bombs going off and things exploding. I woke up and saw people running around, yelling and screaming. I didn't have a weapon or anything. Then this soldier comes by and says, "Grab that ammo." I picked it up and I said, "Where are we going?" He pointed to where all the commotion was. I said, "No, no, I don't want to go out there." I think I started crying. I figured that's it for me.
I 'd been in Vietnam one day and I 'm going to get killed the first night here. But no, we didn't go.

Student: How old were you that night?
Taylor: I was eighteen and that was my first time seeing live combat; I'll never forget that. I just figured that's the end of my life, that 's it.