And if I looked up, there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face.
The bodies of my friends and relatives were blown away in front of my eyes," he said.
Gunner Norman Manley, who had seen his brother blown apart in front of him during the war, eventually took Jamaica to independence, becoming its first prime minister in 1962.
No headlines, just glimpses of the mundane that are sharpened by the knowledge that at any moment someone can be blown up in front of your eyes.
Officials said that earlier in the day they had defused another bomb in a car that they said was intended to be blown up in front of Police Headquarters in Bogotá.
Seeing buddies blown up in front of me did freak me out, but I was pretty fortunate that my brain was not as messed up as some of the vets coming home.
A British man who saw his Turkish fiancee, Hulya Domez, blown up in front of him at the British consulate remained in intensive care in an Istanbul hospital today.
"If the bus would have driven any further it would have blown up in front of a school, which would have been a catastrophe," said Olga Yevtushevskaya, press secretary for the Tolyatti Health Department.
He said that the phrase 'Op vampire', used when a casualty has lost a lot of blood and needed more, "still sends shivers down my spine" but said he was lucky not to have seen his "mate getting blown up" in front of him, which has happened to others.
This practice often resulted in the fuse being blown into the bomb, causing it to blow up in front of the mortar.
Buildings blew up in front of me, dude".
