[eddie]

He told me besides being worried at night about an infiltrator getting into your foxhole and slitting your throat, were the snipers who would be in trees. He said the jungle was so thick at times, that a sniper would kill someone in his platoon and they had no idea where the shot came from. Sometimes another Marine would lose their life or be wounded before they could tell where the shot came from. Then they would literally shred the tree with gun fire to make sure they got him. Sometimes a body would fall from the tree, or they would eventually find the body slumped over still tied to the tree trunk. They were going to stay in that tree killing as many GI's as they could before they were killed.