and and up the creek bed next to the tree turned out to be lieutenant ray toboda. he was a lieutenant of ours. i didn't know him real well at the time. but all i saw is the lieutenant's bar and part of his name. he was severely wounded in his hand and his leg. so i patched up his hand and his leg. i took time to do that. he had pictures of his wife and children laying out around him. he got them out of his thing. he told me years later he thought he was going to die. he had his .45 out in his hand. i asked him what that was about. i thought he was going to save it to shoot the enemy. he said he was going to shoot himself when the north vietnamese came in to get him. so i took his .45 from him. i had two .45s. and i had mine and i had his. i patched his hand and his leg up. >> how did you patch with? >> well, i used his first aid pack and i used mine. patched his leg up best i could. i patched his hand up. he must have been in terrible pain. as i was wrapping it, i wrapped it real soft. he said every time i tried to tie it a little bit he'd wince in pain. you know.

. >> so it took me like a minute to wrap him up, toboda. and a minute -- but i'm running this distance, 75 and 75, whatever it was. and i'm exhausted. dodging these bullets and grenades. extremely emotional. i'm laying on the ground. the ground's cracking under me. the dirt's flying up. and bullets cracking by your head and everything. so you have to jump and dodge, try to weave, end up not making an easy target for them. so i'm trying to stay alive. i'm laying down, like totally exhausted. i can't move anymore. eventually got up off my ass to get russell. so i finally catch up to russell, come up, get more ammo, another belt of ammo and the gun. and off to his left and our rear, just less than ten yards is this g.i. laying on his back with his arm up in the air with a canteen. and he's like trying to drain the canteen. so i see that from like the vantage point on the ground, i see just this arm. i look up and i see this g.i. i tell russell i'm going to give him first aid. he's firing at the enemy, russell is. and we're being fired at the w