>> one of your close friends was killed ibaston. and i know julian -- and i know even today it's difficult for you around christmas and new year's because of his death. >> we just sit home and don't bother. it gives you a lot of thinking to do. of the kids, it was serious, enough to lose a lot of men. in other words, there wasn't snowball fights like they had in the movies. the guys from california throwing snowballs and all that was a lot of hooey. but baon wasad. we had conditions there that you don't know at night -- it ought to be on the camera. it's about human nature and being guys and gals and all that stuff. but we were on our post one night and me and my assistant gunner, shared the same and we were pretty tired. i thought we'd go right off to sleep because we lost a lot of men. we'd go two on and two off or two on, one off, or whatever it required. and i'm laying in a foxhole. al -- there's two men in a foxhol the body heat and takes up less spa for the artillershell to hit. instead of two holes, it would be just the one.