Linger by M. E. Kerr

Author:M. E. Kerr [Kerr, M. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4804-5550-4
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-11-19T16:31:00+00:00

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—FROM THE JOURNAL OF Private Robert Peel

Iraq

We keep rolling. After tank plows make the breach lanes, they run right over Iraqi bunkers and trenches, plowing the men under.

Once, Sugar speaks up: Since when is it okay to bury men alive?

Lieutenant Kerin says what’s the difference if you kill them that way or with hand grenades or bayonets? We’re here to kill them!

Then we get the first taste of it, tanks in flames, sky coming apart with BOOMS like thousands of oil drums falling, exploding in the sand, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Then guns, cannons, rocket launchers all going. Gunners use night-vision sights to locate T72’s in the black smoke and dust.

Five A.M. Finally we sleep in shifts, hammocks strung inside the tank. I loop my canvas-pack harness around the Bradley seat to sleep, so I don’t topple to the floor if we start up again. We keep the engines at idle to be ready to move out fast.

By seven we hear the medevac helicopters swarming through the sky to lift the wounded out of the mud.

Low overcast and cold rain, and outside everywhere dead bodies are strewn, and parts of bodies, and there is twisted steel, wreckage, looks like a junkyard as the fog lifts.

The radio is filled with reports of Iraqi soldiers surrendering by the thousands. Marine and Arab forces hitting hard at Iraq’s 3rd Armored Division outside Kuwait…. War may be over!

Sugar sings with Garth Brooks on his Walkman, “I’ve Got Friends in Low Places.” Movie Star says he’s writing Amy to marry him as soon as he gets home.

We’re laughing it up some now, coming back down now.

In my helmet I’ve got the picture of Lynn by the toboggan.

I heat up MRE pork in barbecue sauce on the grill at back of the tank.

Like last night was just some nightmare.

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