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The soldier sat stiffly in the chair, almost like he was still
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"at attention" while he waited. He wore his best dress uniform, his
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decorations shining at his chest, hat held in his hands on his knees.
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The door marked "Debriefing," at the western end of the waiting
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room opened, and the soldier tensed in anticipation. A man with
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greying hair and Colonels insignia was at the door. He addressed the
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soldier, saying, "Come in, Private." The soldier stood, and walked
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for the door.
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Inside the debriefing room, three men sat at a large office
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desk. One, the Colonel who had summoned him, sat behind it. The other
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two were in civilian clothes, and they sat between the desk and the
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door. They turned and smiled at him as he came in. The Colonel stood
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up and pointed at a chair. "Take a seat, Pvt. Halick," he said. The
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soldier sat.
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One of the civilians piped up, "Colonel Thayer, this is not..."
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but the Colonel stopped him with a raised hand.
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"Halick, this is Mr. O'Shea, of the Boston Chronicle," said the
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Colonel, as one man nodded his head. "and Mr. Mayfair of the Los
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Angeles Globe," and the man who had spoken nodded. "They are here to
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publish your story, and ask you some questions. The Public Relations
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department leaked some of your tale, and the public wants to know more.
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Do you understand, Halick?"
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"Yes, sir. I understand," said Halick.
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Mayfair addressed the Colonel again. "Listen, Colonel Thayer, I
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was told that we'd see physical evidence. So far, I don't see
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anything but this G.I. here."
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"The evidence will be available for your examination, gentlemen,
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after Pvt. Halick has had his say. Okay, Pvt." said Colonel Thayer,
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"tell us what happened, in your own words, the night of August 3rd,
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1943." Thayer leaned back in his chair, put his feet up on the desk,
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and lit a cigarette.
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Halick frowned a moment, collecting his thoughts. He took a
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breath, and began.
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"My squad was on a little island, number AP171 the Army calls
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it. We had been ordered to destroy a Nip radar station there. No way
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to get any plane close enough. The radar would pick 'em up, and the
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flak guns would shoot 'em down. So, HQ figured our best bet was to
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send-in five guys on a raft; a demolitions team. I was just a private
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then, not even dry behind the ears. I recall we were dropped off of a
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sub. The tincan had to submerge again ASAP, so nobody on the island
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would spot it. They didn't even wait for us to get in the raft before
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they threw it overboard. Anyway, we had our raft, hand weapons, and
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about 100 pounds of plastique and caps. We figured to blow that Jap
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dish right off the map!"
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"How many men in your squad, Pvt. Halick?" asked O'Shea.
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"It was me, Ditka, Spinelli, Broski, and Davis. I was the low-
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man. Guy with the lowest rank, ya see. But they were all good men.
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Ditka and I had been best pals since boot camp. Broski was the first
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guy to get me drunk."
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"How old were you then, Private?"
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"I was 22, Mr. Mayfair. Just a dumb, hick country hayseed from
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Marion Indiana. I'd never even been in a plane before I joined the
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service. And one night, Broski and I went to this little club
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outside Fort Bragg, and..." but he was cut-off by the Colonel, who told
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him to continue the story.
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"Well, anyway, the five of us were all dressed in black, and we
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beached the raft on the south side of the island. It didn't really have
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a beach there, just a steep cliff. But the Nips wouldn't expect anybody
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to land there, see? It was about 11:30 at night, I think. We pulled
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the plug on the raft, so it deflated, and we hid it under a fallen palm
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tree. We took the explosives, and started for the radar building, which
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was up on a hill. Of course, we had to move slowly and be real careful.
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The Gooks had patrols all over the place. They also used boobytraps.
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Spinelli was point man, which meant he went first. He had to really
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watch the ground. I know we were climbing up the hill, crawling on our
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guts through the leaves and weeds, but making good time. Then we
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stopped, and the word comes down from Spinelli and down the line.
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Broski, he's in front of me, see, and he says 'wire.' Well, I know what
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that means. I passed it to Ditka, and he passed it to Davis. Then we
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started moving again. When I got up to where Spinelli had been, I saw
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the wire. It was so thin, it looked like a piece of dark hair. But if
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you followed the wire, with your eyes, ya know, ya could see a grenade
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hidden in a plant. If ya'd hit that wire, the pin would pop, and Uncle
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Sam gives your Mom a flag.
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"So, we were getting closer and closer to this building, and we
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heard voices. Three slants go walkin' right in front of Spinelli! I
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mean, if he'd reached out his arm, he could'a tripped 'em! But, like I
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said, we were in black, and it was dark, and all. So the gooks didn't
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see us. They kept walking, talking that sayonara shit.
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"Then we saw the radar building. It was just a big block, with
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a small dish beside it. But it had to go down! So Spinelli, he
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motions Davis and me up. Davis was carrying the blasting caps, and I
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had the gelatin. Broski was the expert, so we unloaded our packs while
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Spinelli and Ditka kept watch. Broski started packing the gel and stuff
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around the tower and all that. Then he set the caps, and a timer and
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dope switch."
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"Excuse me, Private. A 'dope switch'" questioned Mayfair.
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"Oh. Sorry. Slang for a switch that will set-off the bomb if
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the enemy finds it and starts playing around with it. Kinda like a
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failsafe."
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Mayfair scribbled that down in his notes, and motioned Halick to
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continue.
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"So, anyway...the charges were down, and we had to shagtail it
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out of there. The sub was only allowed to wait till 0400, then it had
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to leave. If we weren't at the pickup point by 0330, we were on our
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own! So, we get back on our bellies, Spinelli in front again, but with
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me second from last. Broski was behind me. And we start crawling back
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down that hill.
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"I don't think we'd got more than 50 yards downhill when
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suddenly the alarms went off. I don't know how the gooks discovered us,
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but all at once the air is full of Jap curses and flying bullets! Well,
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we couldn't stay flat anymore! We jumped up and ran like hell!
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It's kinda funny what your mind does when you're really white-face
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scared. I mean, everything just slows down, but you! So we were all
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dashing down that hill like the Devil himself is after us. We can
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hear the Japs behind us, running and stumbling and shooting. We were
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all spread out, but I know Davis was to my right.
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"I think it was Broski who did it. He was a big Polack from
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Chicago, and he wasn't used to being careful. So I think maybe it was
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him who hit the wire. Or it may have been a grenade that the gooks
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behind us threw. But suddenly, the whole world jumped under my feet
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like a cheap whore coming." He stopped. "Ooops...I guess you guys
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can't print that, huh?" Halick grinned, sheepishly.
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"I think we can work around it, Private," smiled O'Shea. "Go
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on."
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"Well, like I said...the world blew up! There was this huge
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white light to my left, and a big booming thud, and it felt like this
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huge hand picks me up and slams me to the ground. I fell flat, and I
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knew I'd been hit by shrapnel. Just kinda knew it, ya know?
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"Well, I'm layin' there, hurt and shook. I couldn't move,
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couldn't feel my legs. Then there was this feeling that something had
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grabbed my hand, and I was sliding across the ground. I recall the
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thought flashing in my head that it was one of the guys; I'd been
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grabbed and they were saving me. Then everything went black."
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Halick stopped, clearing his throat. Seeing his discomfort, the
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Colonel thumbed an intercom switch and ordered a pitcher of ice water
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and glasses. O'Shea was glancing over his notes, puzzlement evident on
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his wide face. He looked up at Halick, and asked, "What did you think
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of the Beatles, son?"
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"Beetles, sir? We never had beetles. Locusts real bad one
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year, but never beetles. Why?"
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"Oh, never mind. Go on with your story. You were being dragged
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across the ground..."
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"Yes, sir. Well, like I say, I was being pulled along, and all
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around me I could hear the fighting. I heard gunshots, yelling, more
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shots...but I couldn't see anything. The sounds got fainter and
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fainter...then it was quiet. I was still being dragged, but I couldn't
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see because it was so dark. I thought maybe I'd died, and that the
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devil was dragging me to hell. It felt like we were going down. I was
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scared as shit. I felt cold. I think I must have been losing a lot of
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blood, from that shrapnel I took, ya know?
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"After what musta been an hour, whatever had ahold of my hand
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let go. It was still pitch black, but I knew I wasn't moving anymore. I
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was starting to get some feeling back in my arms, but I still couldn't
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feel my legs. My eyes searched the darkness, looking for whoever was
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there with me. Then the place lit up, real bright, like a flashbulb
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went off. Made my eyes hurt, I'll tell ya that!
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"So, now the lights were on. I'm looking up at dirt, like a
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cave roof, about 20 feet above me. I turn my head to the side, and
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there's this girl! She was crouched down just out of reach, and when
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she saw me looking, she snatched this dagger out of a sheath on her hip.
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I could see her green eyes flashing anger and fear, and I remember
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thinking 'a guy could get stuck here!"
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"What did this girl look like, Private," asked Mayfair. "What
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was she wearing?"
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"To tell you the truth, sir, at the time I wasn't worried about
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that. All I was thinking about was that knife and where she planned on
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putting it!
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"I tried to speak, but my voice was kinda husky; dry, ya know?
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But I did manage to say, 'it's okay...I'm not gonna hurt ya, lady.'
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I don't think she could understand me, but when she looked in my eyes, I
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guess she got the message. She slid the knife back into the sheath, and
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seemed less frightened. I still didn't know what the hell was going on.
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But she wasn't Japanese, and she could've killed me up on the surface,
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so I figured she wasn't gonna hurt me.
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"I tried to sit up, and couldn't. I managed to push myself up
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onto my elbows, and look down. My legs were there, but the pantlegs
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were dark with drying blood. Seeing that, and the movement of sitting
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up got to me...my head swam, and I lay down again. Well, to be
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honest...I sorta plopped down again. The room was turning like a
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whirlpool. My stomach was spinning too, but in the opposite direction."
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The door opened, and the Colonel's secretary brought a glass
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pitcher of water in. He sat it on the desk, saluted Thayer, and left.
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Mayfair poured a glassful and handed it to Halick, saying he should
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continue his tale.
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Halick sipped his drink, then asked Thayer, "am I doing alright,
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sir?"
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"Just fine, son. Just tell the truth."
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"Yes, sir. So, I'm lying on the floor, hoping I don't fall off,
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and this girl comes closer and leans over me. For the first time, I can
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see how pretty she is. She had hair the color of sun-bleached sand,
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long and straight. I guess she was about 25, maybe 26, with
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a straight nose, high cheekbones, and pouty lips. She slid a hand under
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my head, and put something soft under it. That made the room really
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spin, and I thought I was gonna heave. But she held her hand up above
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my face, and she was holding a thing that looked like a little
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lightbulb. It was glowing, and she brought it close to my face. I
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asked her what it was, and she didn't say anything...just pressed it on
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my forehead," and Halick touched his finger to his skull, just between
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his eyebrows. "The moment she did that, the room stopped moving. I
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felt something weird, like cool air blew through my brain, and my
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stomach settled right down! It was real screwy!
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"She took the light away, and lifted my head so I can see my
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legs. I watched her pull that dagger again, and cut my pants away. I
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know she had to peel them off carefully, because they'd stuck to the
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wounds. I guess I took more shrapnel than I had thought. But when the
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cloth came away, it pulled on the raw flesh. I couldn't feel it. My
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heart sank into my ass. The word 'paralyzed' kept bouncing in my head."
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"But you're walking today, Private," said O'Shea.
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"That's right, sir. And I thank God for it. But anyway, she
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took off my shoes, and while she stared into my eyes, she pricked my
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toes with the needle-point of that knife. When it didn't register, she
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frowned. Then she began cutting off my boxers too! I musta turned 5
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shades of red! I mean, I'd never been naked in front of a woman but my
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mom before! I said she shouldn't do that, but she just did it anyway.
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Then she began to take off my shirts. She didn't pull them out from
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under my back, but she slid my arms out of the sleeves. Now I was naked
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as Adam. She sat beside me for a moment, just sorta staring at me, like
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she'd never seen a naked man before.
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I was staring at her, too...believe you me! She was wearing this
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thing...like something I saw in National Geographic once. The docs here
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at the base had me draw what it was, and they said it was like a bikini,
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but I don't know about that. If a girl had worn clothes like that in
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Marion, she'd be arrested on the spot! It was like a brassiere, but
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made of light brown leather. She had this, like, loincloth on her
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bottom end. It was short, stopping just at the bottom of
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her...her...well, you know."
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"Her 'crotch," prompted Mayfair?
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"Yeah. Her crotch. Can I say that in the papers?"
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"You say it the way you want to, soldier. We'll clean it up for
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publication. And, if what I hear about you is true, we can print things
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that would surprise you."
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Colonel Thayer interrupted, saying, "Just imagine you are
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telling this story to Broski and Ditka in the locker room at Bragg. Use
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whatever language you want."
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"It got kinda...uh...rough, sir," stumbled Halick.
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"I know, son. I've read the reports. Just say it the way you
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want to."
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"Yes, sir, Colonel. This girl starts running her hands over my
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body, almost like she's looking for something. I mean, it felt good and
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all that, but it wasn't sexual, like. Ever go look at the new cars at
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the dealers? And ya run your hands over the upholstery, the bumpers,
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the running boards... You're admiring the car, ya know? It was kinda
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like that, but I got the feeling she was kicking my tires too. I
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couldn't really enjoy it much, cause this was all so weird! The picture
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of me sitting in a wheelchair for the rest of my life that was in my
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head didn't help either.
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She pushed me over on my stomach, and for the first time, I
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could see the floor. It was hard and smooth...like metal or tile, but
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it wasn't either of them. I felt her put her hand on my forehead, and
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then start scratching her fingernails down my spine with her other hand.
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About the middle of my back, I couldnt feel it anymore, and I guess it
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was there that the spinal cord had been damaged."
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"Weren't you in any pain, Halick," asked O'Shea.
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"Not really, sir. The docs here tell me that I musta been in
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some kinda shock. They also talk about something called 'endorphins'
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whatever they are. But they think it had something to do with that.
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"Anyway, when she found that spot in my back, she got up, and
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walked to the other side of the room. I turned my head to watch her,
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and she had a box over there. It was about the size of a foot locker,
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but it was bright blue. She opened it, and took out something that
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looked like a slingshot, but without the rubberbands. It was only about
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the size of a pencil. Then she brings the slingshot over to me, and
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sits back down at my side. I couldn't see what she did, but I felt her
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draw that thing down my back, and all of a sudden my ass caught fire! I
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felt like somebody was pulling the skin off my back! I tried not to cry
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out, but it wasn't any good. I bit my lip until it bled, and tears were
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welling up in my eyes. But I couldn't hold it back. I screamed. God,
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it hurt like all hell! Then it was over.
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"I lay there, trembling and sweaty. The pain was gone, but the
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memory was fresh! Then I felt something...tickling. I jerked, and
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it sure felt like I moved my leg! I pushed myself onto my back again,
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and there was the girl with a blade of grass, tickling my toes! I
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wiggled them in amazement. I could feel my legs! Whatever she had
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done, she'd given me my legs back! She saw the wonder on my face, and
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smiled at me. She had the whitest teeth I'd ever seen. Maybe it was
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her golden-tan skin, but they looked white as milk! She had produced a
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small can from somewhere, and was pulling out gobs of gooey stuff. She
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began rubbing it on my wounds, and man...it felt good! Like when you've
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been on a twelve-mile hike, and can finally take your boots off for the
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night, ya know?
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"The next few hours, I kept asking her questions, and she kept
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acting like she didn't speak English. I had learned a few words of
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French, back when I was in boot camp. A guy named DeSaales taught me,
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since he hoped we'd get stationed in Europe and could go whoring in
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Paris someday after the war. So, I tried a few words of French on her,
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but that didn't get me anywhere either. When I tried to sit up, she
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pushed me back down. I figured she wanted me to lie there, and not mess
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up whatever she did on my back."
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O'Shea stood up and walked over to the window. He stood for a
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moment, looking out at the afternoon activity of the Fort Dix troops.
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Then he turned back to Halick. "How many wounds did you have, private?"
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"Couldn't say for sure, sir. I know I had at least one in my
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back, and I saw one long one that had cut across both my legs. I think
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there were more than that, but like I say..."
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"Bad wounds, were they?"
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"They looked bad, sir. But I'm no doctor."
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"Would you mind rolling your pantlegs up, private?"
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"No, sir. With the Colonel's permission." The Colonel nodded,
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and Halick leaned over to pull his pantcuffs up above the knees. His
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legs were without blemish, clean and unmarked.
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"Where are the scars, Halick? Bad wounds should leave scars."
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O'Shea's face wore an 'I gotcha' smile as he said it.
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"I don't know, Mr. O'Shea. Nearest I can figure is the goop she
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put on the gashes healed 'em without scarring." He rolled his cuffs
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back down, and continued his narrative.
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"Well, this girl wouldn't let me get up for two days. She did
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everything for me. She brought me food and water, and big leaves from
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outside to use for shi...for a latrine. I lost track of the time,
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because I couldn't see the sun. I never was one to wear a watch."
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"If you couldn't see the sun, how did you see in the cave?"
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This time it was Mayfair looking for details.
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"She had some kinda lamp there. It wasn't like anything I'd
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ever seen. It was a tube, about as thick as your thumb and a foot long.
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When it was lying on the floor, it was dark. But when she stood it on
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end, it lit up like a floodlight.
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"Anyway, that was about two days, I think. Sometimes she'd go
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up the tunnel we'd come down. I knew my patrol had been long gone, if
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they'd survived the Jap attack. And with the gooks up there, I wasn't
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in a hurry to go up.
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"During our time together, I tried to teach the girl some
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English. She picked it up pretty quickly. Soon we could talk together.
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I found out that her name was Shauna, and that she was from somewhere
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called Shey-Ar-En. She and her family had been sent here for research
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on the island. But then the Japs came. Their first flyover wrecked
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Shauna's folk's trasport. Bombing flyovers are SOP, ya know."
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Both reporters looked at each other, and Mayfair asked, "Could
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you explain that a little better, son? 'SOP, bombing flyovers' stuff
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like that we civilians don't understand."
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"Well, when an occupational force is gonna land on an island,
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they send planes to bomb the island first. Soften-up any natives, wreck
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any enemy encampments...that kinda thing is SOP...Standard Operating
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Procedure."
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"And one of these bombs killed Shauna's parents and wrecked
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their plane?"
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That's what she said. But, now that ya mention it...she never
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said 'plane.' She said 'ship.' I guess they musta come on a boat. But
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the baseline is that she was as stuck there as me.
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"On the third day, Shauna let me stand up. Man, it felt real
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good to get on my feet. I wanted to go out and look around, real
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careful, you know? But Shauna said it wasn't safe, not in the daylight.
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So we waited until night. While we waited, we talked. I got to
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explaining about Hitler, and Mussolini, and Tojo...you know...the whole
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Japanazi mess. She said she'd had no idea what the Japs (she called 'em
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Yellow Men) wanted on the island, or that there was a war on even! I
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guessed she must have been from Switzerland or some other neutral
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country, not to know about the War. When I started telling her what the
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war was all about, and how many people were dying in it...she began to
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cry. I mean, really sobbing! I felt real bad for her, and slid over to
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her and put my arm around her shoulder. She was shaking all over. and
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we just sat on the floor holding each other while she cried herself out.
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"Now, I'm a gentleman. My Mama raised me right. But, ya gotta
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remember, I hadn't been with a woman in 4 months! So I hope ya won't
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think less of me when I tell ya that she was getting me hot. I mean,
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this beautiful girl, wearing almost nothing, and me still naked as
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Adam... Well, old Woody started saluting, if you get my meaning!"
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"You were getting horny," smiled O'Shea.
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"Yeah...that's the word the doc used when I told him this
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story," said Halick. "Horny. I was gettin' all horny! Ya sure ya
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wanna hear this adult stuff?"
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Both reporters quickly nodded, so Halick continued.
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"Shauna looked down, and she saw what my prick was doing. Her
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eyes got real big, and she just stared at it for a minute. Then she
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asked me what was wrong with it. I guess she musta been a virgin, cause
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she sure looked serious when she asked it. She said she'd never seen a
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man naked before, just me. Well, I tried to explain what a man's penis
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was and why it gets hard, and she just stared at me with her mouth
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hanging open and her eyes staring like I just told her Churchill was my
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sister.
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"Like I say, my Mama taught me right. I wasn't gonna try
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anything with Shauna, her being a virgin and all. But I sure wanted to!
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She smelled so good, so clean! Even living in that cave. Come
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-8-.)0/
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to think of it, she always was clean. I mean, her skin always kinda
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glistened...like she was just a little sweaty, ya know? Her skin felt
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dry enough, but it...gleamed. Not like metal does, but like it was just
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a little damp. I never thought about it before.
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"Well, Shauna gets up and walks behind me, and starts playing
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with my back where she'd operated on me. I could feel her nails
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scratching at my skin, and it tickled good! I've always liked
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that...kinda gets me horny. Well, Woody was still up, but feeling her
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fingernails on my back just made it worse. Goosebumps were spreading on
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my skin, and she asked about that. I told her that it meant I was
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enjoying her nails on my back. I heard her giggle, and then she really
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clawed my back! I stiffened as I felt her rake those nails down my
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spine! I thought she'd laid my back open for sure! That did it! I
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||
wasn't gonna miss this piece of poontang! I grabbed her wrist, and
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guided her around to face me. Then I kissed her. She reacted like a
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wildcat! At first she pulled back, and then she kissed me back! Boy,
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did she kiss me back!
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||
"Shauna pulled out of my arms, and went to that green footlocker
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she had. She brought out a ball, about the size of a poolball. It was
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smokey grey, and little lights danced in it. She brought it over to me,
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and pressed it against my chest. I felt this cool feeling wash over my
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skin, like a trickle of water had just run down my chest. I smiled, and
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she grinned wide. Then she pressed the ball against my forehead. I
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||
watched as the little lights got brighter, and then I heard drums. They
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weren't in my ears, though...they were playing in my head! They were
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||
like jungle drums...slow and strong...kinda like an Indian tom-tom. It
|
||
was wild! Shauna took my hand and put in on her breast, and I could
|
||
feel her heartbeat. It was in perfect time with that drum in my skull!
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That's another weird thing...she put my hand on her right breast. I
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||
didn't think anything of it at the time...but it was the wrong side. I
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shouldn't have been able to feel her heartbeat on that side, should I?"
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All three men shrugged their shoulders, indicating that they
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||
didn't know.
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"Now Shauna rolled the ball down my body, and up under my balls.
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When it touched my nuts, suddenly the drums weren't just in my
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||
head...they were all through my body! I could feel them in my fingers
|
||
and toes, sense the beat in my heart and blood. It was eerie!"
|
||
"And it didn't occur to you to wonder where this Shauna got such
|
||
a remarkable device," questioned O'Shea.
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||
"Like I said, sir...I'm just a dumb ol' country-boy from Marion
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||
Indiana. For all I knew, these things were as common as Fords wherever
|
||
she came from. And if you think that I was worrying about that, with
|
||
that sweet girl in my arms playing with my soldier...well, what would
|
||
YOU be thinking about?
|
||
"Anyway, these drums were beating in my muscles, my blood. And
|
||
they were beating in my Johnson too! He was standing up taller and
|
||
harder than I'd ever seen him do! I was so ready, I thought I'd bust!
|
||
Now, Shauna dropped the grey poolball to the floor, and kissed me again.
|
||
While our lips were pressed together, I began rubbing her orange-sized
|
||
breasts. They slid around in that leather bra she was wearing, but they
|
||
felt firm as anything. She moaned in my mouth and
|
||
-9-.)0/
|
||
pushed her tits into my hands. I could feel her nipples getting harder
|
||
under the soft leather. It wasn't long before I had her top bunched up
|
||
under her armpits, and was pinching those long nips with my fingers.
|
||
She was really enjoying it, and she put her hands on mine, pulling my
|
||
hands so I was really stretching her nipples. They were a pretty coral
|
||
pink, and as big as the end of my little finger! She was having a great
|
||
time with that. Then, when I bent down and took one of 'em in my mouth
|
||
and sucked on it...I thought she'd lose her mind! She just went wild!
|
||
She was gasping and trembling and saying my name over and over...
|
||
"I laid her down on the hard floor, and started untying her
|
||
leather panties. I got them off easy, and was surprised to find that,
|
||
though she had a bush, it was really neat and short. I don't think she
|
||
trimmed it; it didn't look perfect enough for that. But it wasn't so
|
||
long that it'd choke a man. I crawled between those long, muscular legs
|
||
of hers, sitting back on my calves. I took her hand, and guided it to
|
||
my hard rod. She wrapped her hand around ol' Woody, and started to
|
||
stroke it softly. With each stroke, the drums in my body became louder
|
||
and faster. She kept perfect time with the drums, making me more and
|
||
more excited. Drops of juice were dripping out of my digger, running
|
||
down her fist. Damn, it felt great! But there was that pussy...lying
|
||
there, winking at me. I could see it was sparkling with moisture, and I
|
||
could imagine I could hear it saying, 'hi soldier...looking for a good
|
||
time?' So, I leaned forward, and she guided my dick into her hole.
|
||
Oh shit, she was hot inside! It felt like sticking my meat into
|
||
a cup of hot coffee! I couldn't believe it. I could feel her legs
|
||
bending around behind my back, pulling me deeper into her. Her cunny
|
||
sucked on my dick like a second mouth, again, in perfect time to that
|
||
hypnotic drum I felt inside myself.
|
||
"Shauna's blonde head tossed back and forth on the floor, as she
|
||
dug her nails into my ass. Her muscular legs stretched and tightened,
|
||
pulling me forward again and again.
|
||
"Well, between her sucking notch and those drums, and me not
|
||
having touched a woman since forever...I couldn't hold out long! I
|
||
tried thinking about baseball, but Babe Ruth wasn't helping! She was
|
||
shouting and crying and laughing and coming all over the place! Her
|
||
juices were running down my balls and across my thighs. I've never seen
|
||
a woman come so hard!
|
||
"Then, I could feel the sperm boiling in my nuts. I knew it was
|
||
too late. I couldn't hold it back. I came hard, my balls spitting
|
||
about a pint of jizz into her! I know I was howling, but I don't know
|
||
what I said. I was filled with the drums, and she was filled with my
|
||
sperm. Finally, spent, I collapsed on her.
|
||
" I realized as I lay on her heaving body that I couldn't hear
|
||
the drums anymore. They stopped about the same time ol' Woody shot his
|
||
last bullet.
|
||
"Well, after a while, Shauna disengaged herself from me, and got
|
||
up. I was still washed-out, so I just lay there on my back. I could
|
||
hear her saying how good it had felt. Then she came and sat down with
|
||
me. She had a little box, kinda like a matchbox, in her hand. She told
|
||
me that it wasn't safe for me to be on the island anymore. She was
|
||
afraid the gooks had heard us screwing around. She said that
|
||
-10-.)0/
|
||
there would be a ship coming for her soon, but that I couldn't go with
|
||
her. It wouldn't be allowed. But she was going to keep me safe until
|
||
somebody could come to pick me up. Then she showed me the box, and
|
||
pressed a button on it. I felt my brain turn over in my head, and
|
||
that's the last thing I remember until last week. Some developer from
|
||
Texas had come to look over the island, and he was sure surprised when I
|
||
came walking buck-naked out of a cave in the ground! I looked for Shauna
|
||
all around in the cave, but she and her miracle light, and green
|
||
footlocker were gone."
|
||
"Was there anything left in the cave," asked O'Shea?
|
||
"Just some paintings on a wall. I couldn't make heads or tails
|
||
out of 'em."
|
||
Colonel Thayer interupted. "Our top cryptologists went into
|
||
that cave. They found pictoglyphs of a girl which Halick identifies as
|
||
Shauna, as well as another...which looks remarkably like Private Halick!
|
||
There is also these..." and he produced a folder from his desk drawer.
|
||
He drew some photos from it, and passed them to the reporters. They
|
||
looked at the glossies, brows knitted in thought. They looked at Thayer
|
||
with questions in their eyes. He simply said "we don't know. You tell
|
||
me."
|
||
Mayfair handed O'Shea a photo. "You're the science editor on
|
||
your paper. Tell me that this ISN'T what I THINK it is."
|
||
O'Shea's eyes widened. His finger traced a pattern of white
|
||
spots on the paper...spots on the wall of that Pacific Ocean cave.
|
||
"It's the Big Dipper," he whispered. "But it's backwards...like it
|
||
would be seen from," and his eyes involuntarily looked skywards. He
|
||
looked at the other photo he held...the one of a golden-haired girl
|
||
walking into a door in the side of a tremendous silver disk. Also on
|
||
the picture was a shot of the disk blasting it's way into the sky over a
|
||
small, green, tropical island.
|
||
Thayer was holding one last picture. He held it up for the men
|
||
to see. It was an X-ray of a man's back. At the bottom, it read: Pvt.
|
||
C. Halick, vertebreal x-ray number 4701. In the spinal structure, near
|
||
the middle, was a dark Y-shaped object. Thayer said, "We can't take it
|
||
out. It's the only thing holding his spinal cord together. But we've
|
||
run tests on it. It's far beyond anything our medical science has. We
|
||
don't even have the technology to do the surgery, let alone create the
|
||
implant. On top of that, the implant is made of some material we've
|
||
never seen before. We ran out of explanations days ago."
|
||
Halick looked at the reporters. The reporters looked at Halick.
|
||
He was a young man. Only about 23 years old. As the Colonel had told
|
||
them when they were asked to attend this conference, Halick's
|
||
fingerprints had confirmed it was him. His military records had been
|
||
authenticated, showing him a casualty of the mission to AP171 in August
|
||
1943. His body had never been found. This was Halick. No doubt of
|
||
that.
|
||
Thayer broke the silence. "We want to ask your cooperation in
|
||
keeping a lid on this for a few more days. Long enough for us to finish
|
||
cleaning up the cave on AP171. See, we found a note, written in another
|
||
language on the floor by the spot where Halick had lain. The
|
||
cryptographers aren't certain, but the words seem to indicate that
|
||
Shauna and her friends are coming back for a visit. Two days
|
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-11-.)0/
|
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from now, they should be arriving. The U.N. is getting ready to welcome
|
||
them as Ambassadors. We'd appreciate your help in getting the public
|
||
prepared for the visit."
|
||
Halick stood up, saying that he was due for a test in Medical
|
||
Division. The Colonel dismissed him. He saluted, and went out the
|
||
door. The reporters watched the WW2 veteran walk away, still a spry 23
|
||
years old. Then they began discussing how they would break the news to
|
||
President Bush that Ambassadors were coming from out of town...a very
|
||
long way out of town.
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FINI
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