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2009-12-07 Afghanistan

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Posted by trailing wife 2009-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 First Tour Hill 22 on the Son Tra Bong in Quang Ngai Province...Operation Starlight and staying alive from the early days when they were building Chu Lai.

Mui Dem at night in the weeds and little Timmy Duong with a bullet in under her left eye blowing her septum and palate down her throat and exit out the skull under the right ear. She chokes for a moment and bleeds to death and you get the other three, roll 'em over and check 'em, and strip the bodies for the VC pay records sewed into the pajamas.

Then the second tour and being quiet and watching and everybody is a new guy and people make mistakes too easy and think its just "bad luck". Its not bad luck...its because they dont have the right mind for the work. Mind is very important.

Third tour and you realize the price...you think no more of killing a man than stepping on a bug. And you look at the dew condensing on the M-60 and listen to the crickets and the frogs out in the Paddy. And you are really never going to ever go home again. Its too late and you are never going to be anything but what you are.

Forever and forever and forever , creeps in this petty pace....from day to day... and all our yesterdays have lighted fools....

Posted by Angleton9 2009-12-07 05:26|| 2009-12-07 05:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Pretty good writing Angleton9. You have a way with prose.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-12-07 17:22|| 2009-12-07 17:22|| Front Page Top

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