WORLD WAR II
Battle of the Bulge
"I was here, behind the
big tree branch, in that not available
field and I can see these germans in the woods across this big field; and I saw
this young kid carrying this shotgun crawling
toward my hiding; so, I didn´t call,
didn´t fire him, but when he got up three or four foot to me I pointed at him
for surrounded and instantly this police gun torched ; which made instant dead
for him. But this young man, he was a blond, blue eyes.. so handsome.. he was
like a little angel.. but I still had shooted, and it didn´t bother me the first
night, because I did sleep, I was so tired..but, the second night, I woke up
crying, because that kid was there. And after this day I wake up many nights
crying about this kid. I still seeing him in my dreams and I don´t know how to getting off my mind."
Joseph Robertson
recorded this memory at StoryCorps with his son-in-law, John Fish Jr., in july
of 2005.
He died in January of
2009, at age of 90.
Joseph called shooting
this soldier the saddest memory of his
life.