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THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY SECOND PART, 30 Days Has September

The monsoon day wore on, its rain relentless, the river mildly rising in the volume of water passing, and in sound, but nothing we weren’t used to enduring down in the bottom of our own private hell, known as the A Shau Valley.

THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY, 30 Days Has September

by James Strauss | 190 comments

The sounds of the Bong Song’s nearby rushing waters, the whap whap whap of the descending chopper’s supersonic blade-tips rotating, and the rest of the valley background sounds all faded into non-existence, as four Skyraiders came down the valley from the north, no...

TWENTIETH NIGHT SECOND PART, 30 Days Has September

by James Strauss | 210 comments

I holstered Tex’s Colt .45 automatic that I had used half my canteen water to boil clean earlier. I had no oil but I knew there had to be some kept by others in the company I could get later. The Colt would operate just fine with no oil at all but only as long as it...

THIRTY DAYS HAS SEPTEMBER, The Twentieth Night

by James Strauss | 268 comments

The mess of stationery I carried was a collection of soggy, semi-wet and dried water stains holding strands of paper together. The envelopes were in the best shape because I’d rolled them into a tight tube and used one of my extra trouser springs to hold them...

THIRTY DAYS HAS SEPTEMBER, The Twentieth Day Third Part

by James Strauss | 219 comments

There were fifty bodies, and right away everyone in the joined companies knew that the enemy soldiers were not NVA troops, or really soldiers at all. The uniforms were wrong and the ages were wrong. The bodies were of very young men and women dressed in peasant...