Writing Prompt

“I was twenty when the draft got me… After basic they flew us in here… I never seen a place so bad and scary, like somebody beat on it and it reared back and turned into a huge poisonous snake…. That jungle, it ate people up. Like Raymond. I remember the first day I saw Raymond, a gung ho kid, patriotic, tough, bloodthirsty for God and country. That was before…"

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