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That and those IittIe things
that make your skin crawl...
:14:08
... and the hair stand up
on the back of your neck.
:14:10
You mean like Spoon?.
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No, there's one thing actually, in particular...
:14:16
... that I'll remember till the day that I die.
:14:19
Yeah, it was back in ninety-one,
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just before my unit was flown out to Kuwait...
:14:22
... to mop up the last pockets of resistance.
:14:25
Me and this young fella called Eddie Oswald...
:14:29
... decided to go and get a tattoo done...
:14:30
... to commemorate our first trip into the desert.
:14:33
Yeah, I remember Eddie.
:14:34
He was a stocky hard case...
:14:36
... with a broken nose and a bong eye, yeah?.
:14:38
Yeah, that's him. Good-Iooking fella.
Big hit with the ladies.
:14:44
Anyway, me and Eddie,
we went and had a few drinks...
:14:47
... we had a lot of drinks...
:14:49
... then we went down to the tattoo parIour
and I got a Deser Rat done...
:14:52
... and Eddie being Eddie wanted something
with a bit more meaning.
:14:55
And being a bit of a believer...
:14:58
... he said that his soul still belonged to God...
:15:02
... but his fIesh, well, his fIesh
was way beyond redemption...
:15:05
... and it was up to Satan to save his skin.
:15:09
So he got this fucking great Iaughing deviI
tattooed right on his arse.
:15:15
Anyway, about six days Iater we were making a
regular sweep along the lraqi border...
:15:19
... and Eddie, poor fucker,
triggered an anti-tank mine.
:15:25
Yeah. We all saw it happen.
I mean, he was on point.
:15:29
White blinding lightning flash and
:15:32
a fucking deafening crack.
:15:33
And by the time we picked ourseIves up
off the deck, Eddie was...
:15:38
... he was gone.
:15:41
Just bits and pieces of him.
That's all that remained.
:15:44
This big fucking red circle. Hundred metres.
:15:49
I'll tell you something, Iads,
it really puts things in perspective...
:15:52
... when you have to scoop your mate up
with a shovel and
:15:54
stick him in a bin-bag.
:15:57
Anyway, the thing that...
:15:59
... really did our nuts in that day was when you...