me and about fifty other guys stood up to a banzai charge on guadalcanal two fucking million japs coming at us hopped to the eyeballs and waving those swords they made out of maxwell house coffee cans - and i never got a scar , i felt a couple of bullets go right by me , and just before we broke that charge the guy next to me got his guts rearranged courtesy of the emperor of japan , but the only times i saw the colour of my own blood over there in the pacific was when i cut myself shaving .