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THE SIXTEENTH DAY THIRD PART, 30 Days Has September

The Righteous Brothers began their song called Unchained Melody and, as the first words of the lyrics squeaked out of Fusner’s tiny radio speaker, life came to a stop for me. I just sat there and listened.

THE FIFTEENTH DAY THIRD PART, 30 Days Has September

by James Strauss | 134 comments

There was no recoil as the Browning fired. The recoil was absorbed by the fixed tripod attached to the top of the Ontos. I’d never fired such a weapon. In training I’d fired a short burst of an M-60 but it had been a stuttering jerky experience fired standing in the...

THE FIFTEENTH DAY, 30 Days Has September

by James Strauss | 195 comments

The Skyraiders came out of the low level pre-dawn light, the sun still out and down earth somewhere on the other side of the valley’s eastern lip. There were four of them, and the drone of their big powerful propellers and engines built from a faint buzzing to a...