Bouncing off those rock walls. My wrist hit the middle of the road first and broke like someone snaps a twig while walking through the forest. My pelvis hit the blacktop next and something inside me rattled and busted, like a rock hitting a windowpane.
All was black and blue for a moment and I fought to come back. My mind returned, and rubber tires were squealing and gravel was flying, striking my arms and chest like we was under fire. I saw the mashed-up cab of our truck from my periphery. That other truck was crunched into us, head-on. I propped myself up, trying to scramble out of the way, but my arm buckled and my insides jumbled and I scrunched my eyes and tried not to holler at the pain. A woman bent over me. She wore a long gray coat-dress, and her hat bore a tiny crimson cross.
The side of the road looked closer now, and she was flicking the seal of a morphine syrette, getting ready to stick my leg. The kid from D Company lay a few feet away, the kid going home to his girl. His sandy hair was matted red now, his long legs motionless, his complexion colorless when a medic pulled a blanket overtop his face. So creamy and good, and I was there sitting in our kitchen again. Mama wore her Sunday dress with her best apron tied behind her and she was telling me to stay at the table and have seconds on dessert.
Shifty was in and out of army hospitals for a year following his accident. After the war he came back to the coal mines of Clinchco, Virginia, and worked as a machinist for the coal companies.
He and his wife Dorothy had two children, Wayne and Margo. Great story of a true and humble american Hero! Great article! My late uncle was a Toccoa man from Fox Co. Look forward to reading the book! Some story. These guys walked the walk. I knew Babe Hefron from Easy Company. Good men all, Heroes, those that stayed and those that came home to a thankful America.
Its amazing to see at my age late sixties veterans I so admire like Shifty. My first experience was live TV where a civil war confederate soldier and a union soldier were decked out and talking to each other on a live camera… both more than a century old.
I grew admiring his humor and fun attitude about life. I also trained for Vietnam.. I just wish I had a chance to meet Shifty.. God Rest your Soul.. Mike Saigh. Click here to cancel reply. There are moments in military history that forever alter the flow of human events.
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This was such a weird sight! It looked as if they were climbing out of their graves. One soldier asked me who was doing the shooting during the night. I told him that I had not heard any shooting. Then I remembered the dream I had that night: I had dreamed that I was shooting at one of our own. I don't know why. When I remembered my dream, I thought, "Man, I better check this out! Then I started watching the guys climbing out of their foxholes. I breathed a sigh of relief when saw they were all allright.
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Normandy to Berchtesgaden. Stories Darrell 'Shifty' Powers. Prev Next. Shifty Powers won this lottery after the rest of the company rigged it in his favor and was set to return stateside. During the trip to the airfield, the vehicle that Shifty was in was involved in an accident and he was badly injured. He spent many months recuperating in hospitals overseas while his comrades-in-arms arrived home long before he did. Honorably discharged from the Army in the postwar demobilization, he became a machinist for the Clinchfield Coal Corporation.
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