C-Rations Archives - James Strauss

TWENTY-SIXTH DAY, SECOND PART, 30 Days Has September

The attack never came. We’d rushed back to our positions in the expectation that the NVA would understand that we’d left our rear area totally unprotected, but either the enemy had not figured that out, or there was another mystery that might never be explained. Even...

THE NINETEENTH NIGHT SECOND PART, 30 Days Has September

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I awoke in darkness, bringing up my Gus Grissom watch more for the tiny bit of illumination emanating out through the crystal than to see what time it was. I quickly oriented myself to where I was and how I’d come to be there. I heard the wind and river sounds wafting...

THE EIGHTEENTH NIGHT SECOND PART, 30 Day Has September

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The firing stopped suddenly, as if the return of our company was something for the enemy to take stock of, while the remnants of Kilo Company had figured out they were only making themselves targets for the RPGs. “They’ve quit firing those things,” Fusner whispered in...

THE EIGHTEENTH NIGHT, 30 Days Has September

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I moved back down the river bank, my mind spinning in contemplation of executing the Gunny’s plan, and feeling a bit sick to my stomach at the idea of it. Zippo and Fusner took their E-Tools and dutifully began to dig holes near where the other radio operators worked,...

THE EIGHTH DAY SECOND PART, 30 days Has September

by James Strauss | 46 comments

I finished my letter home, the light of dawn sufficient to allow me to see the paper almost as well as the lousy black ink from my cheap government ballpoint.