MrBallen

I won't be able to, like my mom won't be able to like see me again.

And I was like, oh my God, like that was the pain.

It wasn't, I'm going to die.

It was my poor mom.

And then as the grenade is falling in this fraction of a second, it reached my torso.

And again, it's just falling, you know, the speed it takes to fall, but it's everything really did slow down.

And I thought, okay, I'm still definitely going to die, but at least my face will be intact.

And my mom will see me again.

And then by the time it reached the ground, I was like, oh, it might just hit my legs, blow my legs off.

I might live.

This is pretty good.

Shoot!

So it detonates, and I was with six other guys that I was in the unit with, and it was honestly horrific.

I mean, everybody's down, there's a gunfight going on, and I basically was immobile.

And I was literally under fire, dragged out to this other alleyway where I'm not safe.

There are combatants literally firing rockets and just shooting arbitrarily in our direction.

I'm watching tracer rounds, which you can see every period, like when you shoot like five rounds in a row, one shows up.

It's like a bright light.

I'm seeing tracer rounds skipping all over the place.

And the people we've just attacked who are attacking us, they're like 15 feet away.