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• Napoleon? Patton? Omar Bradley? MacArthur?
• Despite everything, Mikey laughed, and then I noticed he’d been shot during the fall. There was blood pumping out of his stomach.
• Groups of guys moving up, replacing their dead, joining the front line of this wide-ranging, large force on their home ground, armed to the teeth, and still unable to kill even one of us.
• I yelled out loudly, “Axe! Moving! ” He had time to shout back, “Roger that!” before they shot him in the chest. I watched his rifle fall from his grasp. He slumped forward and slipped down the rock he’d been leaning on, all the way to the ground. I absolutely froze. This could not be happening. Matt Axelson, a family fixture, Morgan’s best friend,...
• To this day I have nightmares about it, a chilling dream where Danny’s still talking to me, and there’s blood everywhere, and I have to walk away and I don’t even know why. I always wake up in tears, and it will always haunt me, and it’s never going to go away.