he walked right by, said okay, boys, let s go, follow me. we turned around and followed him into the creek bed, that area, which is thick jungle there. our landing zone is fairly flat. we aukd off that flat area into the thick jungle. and i don t think it went ten steps and all hell broke loose. the firing, the machine guns, the bombs, the grenades. real scary, real hectic. lieutenant taft gets shot and killed. the guy in front of me, jerry kirsch, gets machine gunned across his stomach. he s no more than two, three yards in front of me. the guys to the left and right of me, one got shot, one got wounded. jerry rolls over on his back, screaming for his mother top of his lungs. i see he s holding his stomach screaming. it freaks you out, this instant thing that s happening here. so russell adams broke off to the left. i didn t see my ammo bearer. he was behind me. so i wanted to stay close to russell. i ran after him. we were actually running parallel to the creek bed now, goi