PFC Albert Wilson

”...and we’re sitting there, and Billy Olmos from Nebraska is sitting right across from me when suddenly we hear this, this, howling noise from across No-Man’s-Land. And we all grab our guns and run and look over the edge of the trench, but we don’t see nothin’. And then, I remember, I notice Billy didn’t join us. So I turn around, and that’s when I see…”

Lt. Thomas Kulper, MD

“They bring this kid in from the front, you know? And we all think we’ve seen everything, everything. And I pull the blanket back… and… I see this… tail… flapping back and forth… from the boy’s… chest….”

PFC Albert Wilson

”...and I didn’t know what it was at first, it was just this gray thing poking out of… out of Billy’s chest… and… it was… it was still alive… it was trying to get out of his… his chest, right?”