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(Like I always do, I'm putting in a well thought out intro. So, this little idea comes from my speech competition from this Saturday.
You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam .. It's November 11, 1967. LZ (landing zone) X-ray.
Hey my darlin', just a note. In fact, the last thing I ever wrote. Honey when you became my wife. Never been so proud in all my life. A simple country boy, wild and free.
“Welcome home, soldier,” called a voice in the dark, 30 years late to a 50 year old man. Once he was golden with the promise of youth, til his country sent him off to foreign land.
"Charlie's in the tree line, about three clicks ahead, and we're out of luck on fire support, cos' the radios are dead, we're pretty low on ammo, last night we lost four men.