Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Fallen Angels 200-300

While sitting at their hooch they get word that another village is under attack and they are chosen to go in and see whats going on with it. They ride a helicopter there and everybody is nervous and anxious to arrive to the town. After Gearhart almost got some of them killed they have been a little edgy since then and question why they should be going. Perry also begins to notice the amount of black people in his platoon and the amount of dangerous questionable missions they make them go on. He thinks there is a kind of racial thing going on in the Army still and it makes him sick. They arrive at the town and there are bodies everywhere and huts being burned to the ground. They sweep the perimeter for enemies and do not find anything. They think they fled or possibly hiding so now everybody is really edgy. They search the huts for enemies and information and try to put out some of the fires they could handle. Perry enters a hut and searches it and finds this photo of a old man standing beside a bicycle with a smug look on his face. While looking at the picture he hears a click. Then he hears another. He turns around to find himself face to face with a Cong pointing a rifle right at his face. He froze up and watched him turn the bolt ferociously trying to get the rifle to fire. Then its as if he woke up and gripped his rifle hard and put it in the Cong's face and unleashed all 30 rounds in the magazine into his face. When he ran out he dropped the clip slammed another one in the chamber and emptied that one into his enemies face also yelling things at him. Peewee comes to him and grabs him holding him saying everything was going to be alright. Perry looks at the man he just killed, he had no face just a mash of different colors of flesh his eyeball hanging from a strand. They return back to the base and reflect back on the day. Perry was very uneasy after killing someone and Peewee stayed with him holding him tell he fell asleep. The days go by and the thought of the man Perry killed never leaves his thoughts for a second. He doesn't feel well and doesn't eat a whole lot any more and finds it hard to get back into the rhythm of things. They are sent to patrol a hilltop where they have been seeing activity. When they get there they are put under heavy fire again and Perry is hit in the leg by a round trying to make his way to Brew who was also hit and then Perry is lifted off the ground by artillery round and could not move. He then is grabbed by the collar and drug to a safe position. They put him on the chopper where he watched Brew die. They flew him to a hospital and spent weeks there recovering. He met Judy Duncan there the woman who he had talked to on his way to Vietnam and caught up with her. Perry returned back to his unit after some healing to his body had been done. He caught up with everybody and got back into the groove of things.

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