Although I was visible to everyone, I was still present only in spirit and not in body. If someone would have shot me, I wouldn't have been injured. I began to think if I had also been here in body, I could have had the protection of the Ayatollah Khomeini, since I had once saved his life. But if I were here in body, I would need body guards all around me. Since at the moment I was only here in spirit, I didn't need any protection.

The banks of the river were swampy. On the other side we could see the encampment of the Iraqis, whom the Iranians were fighting. As soon as we arrived, the officer in charge of the Iranians commanded his troops to attack the Iraqi encampment. The Iranian soldiers began running and shooting in that direction and the Iraqis returned the fire. The Iranians then began trying to swim the river.

I simply stood and observed. A girl walked up to me and said, "I don't believe it. What are you doing here? Don't you know that you could be killed?"

We didn't know each other; she simply saw I was an American and she wondered what I was doing here. Another fellow walked up. We were standing by some rocks and I asked him if he wanted to go out and fight. He said he had wanted to come to the front, but now that he was here, he realized it was a bit risky.

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