# 2 :They’d made it.

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He told Hank that it was going to be OK and he franticly dragged him up out of the swampy muck and was stumbling...running....half falling towards the American Tank Company when...

….......the shells started to fall, and the white phosphorous..... even Napalm. Around him,....on him.

Oblivion. Pain.

So much Pain.

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It appeared that he and his team had prematurely sprung a trap the NVA had set for an American Cav. unit. The G.I.’s had heard the racket and been warned. They were prepared. They even had air cover...hence the napalm.

After the NVA had obliterated his team they’d noticed that apparently one or two had gotten away. Him and Hank. They’d given chase. He’d unintentionally lead the NVA right into the tender loving arms of the Americans. The Americans were ready. It was like lambs to the slaughter.

The NVA got in a few good licks but were pretty much destroyed. That didn’t help him and Hank. They were lying in a mud hole between the two forces and received fire from from both units.

By the time it was all over he was mostly dead and Hank was completely dead. Had to be dead. People couldn’t be alive when they were missing pieces like that. More pieces. Not just his legs, both his arms was gone too, and his head, and burnt...they were both very badly burnt.

Napalm will do that.

Oh look. Nice men were coming to get him...

Darkness….and Pain.

Hazy. Unclear recollection of being discovered by Americans. The Americans became frantic and started yelling. Something about Helicopters.

Helicopters were nice. Back in the bad old days they didn’t have helicopters. Most times you just lay there in the trench and died.

Trench? What trench?

Oblivion.

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