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![THE COWARDLY LION, Chapter I](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CowardlyLion.jpg)
![TWENTY-SIXTH DAY, SECOND PART, 30 Days Has September](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/M198.jpg)
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 SEVENTH DAY, 30 Days Has September](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/101stAirborne1.jpg)
THE SEVENTH DAY, 30 Days Has September
Fusner whispered into my left ear before first light. I blinked rapidly, once again not aware of having slept, but nothing could explain the passage of time from one waking moment to the next. I shook my head. Maybe I was sleeping…
![THE FIRST NIGHT](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/HeySlick6.jpg)
THE FIRST NIGHT
I followed the Buck Sergeant down through the dark muddy aisle of the Da Nang Hilton. The aisle was strewn with back packs and other field equipment I could not help running into. My flight bag was tucked under the bunk, for whatever security that might provide.
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