[eddie]

I talk to a WWII vet everyday, I look after my father who is 90 years old now. He was in the 4th Marine Division, and while he was fighting on Tinian, they had dug in for the night. (He carried a Browning Automatic Rifle) To protect themselves from Japanese infiltrators at night, they strung up wire out in front of their foxholes. They attached cans from their C-Rations to the wire and put some pebbles in them so they would make noise if they were moved.

Well, later that night someone walked into the trip wires and made a bunch of racket out there, they called out for a password incase it was a Marine night patrol returning to their lines, but got no answer. So everyone along the line opened fire. A short time later they were ordered to stop firing, and after they did, they heard nothing, no noise from out front. Of course they didn't sleep the rest of the night. But when the sun finally came up so they could see what was out there, come to find out they had shot the crap out of a water buffalo who walked into the wrong place at the wrong time!