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Last hour of light pretending… Romantic camping trips…
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Sometimes taste the envelope flaps… Wanted to love him as he loved her…
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Wrote beautifully… She was a virgin… Never mentioned war… Mostly chatty… Elusive on the matter of love…
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Take care of yourself… Return the letters…
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Check the perimeter… Watch the night… Return to his hole… With the things they carried…
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Kool -Aide, pocket knives, bars of soap… By necessity helmets and camouflage cover…
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To carry was to hump… Meant to walk or march… What they carried… Function and rank of field specialty…
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Leutinent Humped… Responsibility for the lives of his men…
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Medic Humped… Morphine and Comics and M&M’s…
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Carried whatever appropriate… Means of killing, of staying alive...