"If by some accident your boot touches down on a piece of ground that's been mined you're gonna be messed up for life or dead. And just the deed of walking, day by day, took a kind of valor that's hard to describe, walking down a street in New York or Chicago you don't think about it, just walking. But in the Pinkville area it was so heavily mined, and so heavily VC, and so dangerous, just walking was a kind of nightmare." -interview with PBS How does the quote ring true in this section ?The things they carry