Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974 Page: 46
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46They were fanatics on killing themselves and
killing you. For instance, they would come against
our batteries, our field artillery batteries. They
would infiltrate in through the infantry to get to
our batteries in the nighttime. They would have a
satchel charge of dynamite on their back. They would
put their arms around the barrel of our howitzer and
then pull the charge and destroy them and the howitzer
at the same time. I don't see how more fanatical
you could get to that. They would charge our inter-
lacing fires wave upon wave, knowing that they were
going to be killed. But they would kill enough of us,
and in the early days of the war, by doing this, they
could kill enough of us, and we'd run out of bullets
and couldn't fire them fast enough, and they would
overwhelm us. But as we got used to it, we set up
our defenses in such a way that we could repel them
with it. But I don't know. All I can say is that
life to them or death to them does not, or did not,
have the significance that it has to us of the Western
world under the influence of the Christian religion.
I wanted you to get this in the record for two reasons
because I think it was going to in some way influenceMarcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Green, John Plath. Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974, book, {1976-02-06,1976-03-01}; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944578/m1/47/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.