Into No Man's Land by Ellen Emerson White

Author:Ellen Emerson White
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2012-07-24T04:00:00+00:00

January 24, 1968

An NVA soldier walked up to the perimeter today and surrendered. He was lucky that no one shot him, because it was really a shock to have him just show up like that. Especially since we’ve been taking so many casualties and spending so much time on alert that none of us are getting any sleep. It’s hard to think clearly when you’re so freakin’ tired.

Once the guy was inside our lines, the executive officer from the command post went over to interrogate him. A couple of jets happened to fly by, on a bombing mission, and the NVA guy fell apart. No one ever touched him, but Tiger, one of the RTOs, told me that the guy started crying and everything. Apparently, he was a complete wreck. Looks like all of those bombing missions are having an effect, after all.

Then, when some artillery happened to be fired nearby, he was on the ground, shaking like crazy and babbling to himself. Tiger says it was just pathetic. After that, I guess there wasn’t much point in trying to interrogate him. So a chopper came in to take him to the rear, where the intelligence team will probably have a crack at him. A bunch of antiaircraft fire hit the chopper on the way out, but even though we could see smoke coming from the engine, it kept flying, so I think they made it. Hope so, anyway.

Part of me was glad to hear that the NVA soldier was so screwed up, since they’ve been hitting us so hard lately — but, another part of me felt sorry for the guy.

I hate to admit it, but mostly, I was glad.

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