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Article: Ambush in War Zone D: the Vietnam War draftees who fought with valor and saved my life.
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- The Washington Monthly
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Something touched my foot, and I was instantly awake. I squirmed around to face a dark figure looming over me, the muzzle of my M-16 still directed down the trail a few yards away through the jungle. He projected his voice in a stage whisper:
"It's o-five thirty, sir."
I turned and sat up, my eyes blinking in the dark. My answer was also a whisper.
"Okay, thanks. Get the other platoons on the horn. Make sure everyone is okay."
Other men were stirring around me, and I slowly rose up to a crawling position, stretching my arms and legs. We had been lying on the jungle floor for the past six hours, a platoon of about twenty American ...