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not only is your life at stake. Theirs are too.

and we withdrew behind the irrigation ditch.

all the surviving paratroopers had been brought out or had

its commander severely wounded. I knew that if we stayed much

I ordered the driver to back up. We drove a few dozen feet

I fired into his chest. He tumbled into the foxhole. As I kept

less than 20 feet to my left. Keeping myself as low as possible

trying to stem the flow. But he slipped out

I was shocked to see a surviving Egyptian soldier

two of the tanks were hit. One was on fire. The SU-100 tankdestroyers

a salvo of Saggers zeroed in on our tanks and APCs. Within a

even though we both knew that he’d have to

simply stood up and starting walking west

I could see that the APCs had completed their first evacuation

juddering towards us as the Egyptian soldiers

as our tanks came under fire from rocket-propelled

had managed to turn back the Syrian attack. In this war

the ninth day of the war – Israeli forces on the Golan

had rushed home in the knowledge that for the first time since 1948

and as more reservists arrived from abroad