Pemble starts stuffing the wound with Kerlix until he’s knuckle-deep in Vandenberge’s huge arm. Vandenberge is soaked with blood from his boots to his collar and soon Pemble is too, and when he cuts the sleeve off Vandenberge’s uniform another two or three cups of blood spill out. “You could see it in his face that he’s slowly dying,” Pemble said. “He was turning really ghost-looking. His eyes started sinking into his head, he started to get real brown around his eyes. And he kept saying, ‘I’m getting really dizzy, I want to go to sleep.’ That’s some rough shit to hear, coming from one of your
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