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THE FOURTEENTH DAY SECOND PART, 30 Days Has September

I knew that our real registered position was known to the two Army batteries we’d used for fire, and Cowboy and Hobo had to have our position fairly well marked, but the jets coming in would not be quite so accurately informed.

THE FOURTEENTH DAY, 30 Days Has September

by James Strauss | 265 comments

A fifty caliber machine gun opened up in short bursts again, but this one wasn’t pouring in tracer rounds from the hill further down south on the other side of the river. We were too close for the tracers to begin to light up from this one, and not far enough away to...

THE THIRTEENTH NIGHT THIRD PART, Thirty Days Has September

by James Strauss | 198 comments

Casey should have been restrained by force, if necessary and held until resupply arrived, no matter how long that took, but that wasn’t going to happen. Casey wanted to go on the mission down to the river and confront the tank. In the dark. With a small band of men...

THE THIRTEENTH NIGHT SECOND PART, 30 Days Has September

by James Strauss | 190 comments

I had to put my binoculars down, as the Skyraiders came in much faster than I thought they would from the higher altitude. Seconds before I’d looked in the direction the Sandys were dropping down from, and seen the end of the day’s sunlight glint off something near...

Is the Enemy Everywhere…?

by James Strauss | 24 comments

Dateline March 31, 2017 Lake Geneva, Wisconsin For some reason I cannot write well this night. I am working on another segment of the Vietnam odyssey, Thirty Days Has September, but came to the river in the bottom of that valley and then lost my way. Not then, but...