The first time you were under fire, you thought, "How ... can they do this to me? If only I could talk to the ... firing at me, we'd get along, everything would be all right." I just had the overwhelming feeling that if I could talk to these people, that they are really the same as I am, that it's not us that are doing it, it's some other system and we're just pawns in this... thing, throwing the shit at each other. -Lee Childress, US Army
Mom,
Two new guys arrived today, to replace Clark ad Jordan. They seem all right, but I don't think the one is going to make it. I don't know why I think that, I just have a strong feeling about it. I hope I'm wrong.
We were hit with a long bout of mortar fire last night A couple men were hit with shranel but nothing more serious.
I just heard a mortar go off.
Your loving son,
John