[Many who made it through considered themselves lucky to be alive.] It would come and go and then explode, ... It was like a blast furnace.

They're very lucky to be alive. A furnace like this is very dangerous.

I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive.

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

I don't want to explode,

He has a broken wrist, broken pelvis, broken tailbone. ... It was extremely serious and he is lucky to be alive. Some of the guys have been going back and forth to see him. They came out with some hop tonight. I heard them talking to each other before the game about playing well for Daniel.