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Originally Posted by sapper
Often when men are burned to death, they are in the process of trying to escape. At the point where death happens, they are frozen in time. Dead men standing up in tanks was unusual. Though sadly the number of times we found men hanging over the side. Draped downwards from the turret was quite common, specially in the Reconnaissance regiments.
One other poignant moment was in the cauldron of the Falaise pocket where the enemy used anything to get away. We passed a little car with its front door open. The driver had his hand on the car door handle, and one leg out. The blackened but still recognisable figure of a man......Frozen in time. For ever.
Sapper
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Hi Sapper
Since you posted this I have looked back over it again and again trying to find the right things to say and the right way to put it, and I think now that I have it.
I have read this post about a hundred times now, trying to imagine it and I can't do it. It seems like it just cant possibly be real, but I know very well both from pictures and from veterans I have talked to, that such things are a real fact of war and it is very real. I hope such things don't effect your life and that the do not bother you in your sleep as I have heard that is happens, I wish you and all other veterans a long and peaceful life, since afterall you deserve it.
All the world is gratefull for not only the things you and many other men did but for also what you saw and had to go through so that many others did not have too. But I still would never have wished that sight apon anyone.
Thankyou for everything.