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[Oct. 25th, 2016|09:47 pm] |
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“There was a standard question you could use to open a conversation with the troops, and Fouhy tried it. ‘How long you been in-country?’ he asked.
The Kid half lifted his head; that question could not be serious. The weight was really on him, and the words came slowly.
‘All fuckin’ day,’ he said.”
"There was a black grunt with the 9th Division who called himself the Entertainer. When I asked him why he said, " 'Cause I rock and I roll," and flipped the selector switch on his 16 back and forth between semi and full. He walked away, moving almost in two sections like his ass was stalking his chest, so that his dog tags flopped hard against him. He spun on his heel and did it backward for a few yards. Then he stopped and reached over his head. When he pulled his arm down a heavy rain came pouring in. "I been here so long I can call these motherfuckers in on the dime." |
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