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The knowledge shocked them, loosed the familiar...
10:38 PM, Thursday, May 6, 2010
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The knowledge shocked them, loosed the familiar unreality of war and death, and the song wavered over a syllable or two"I'm gonna miss that old sonofabitch," Polack said
"C'mon, let's keep going," Red mutteredGuys came and guys went, and after a while you didn't even remember their names
"Roll me over in the clover
They passed a bend in the island and saw Mount Anaka in the distance"Boy, did we climb that?" Wyman asked
Some of them scrambled up the side, pointing out slopes of the mountain to each other, arguing whether they had climbed each particular ridgeThey had a startled pride in themselves"It's a big sonofabitch
"We did okay to go as far as we did
That was the main sentimentAlready they were thinking how they would tell it to their buddies in other platoons
"We just got lost in the rolex watches discount shuffleEverybody's gonna have a story to tell
And that pleased them tooThe final sustaining ironies
The song was still going on
"Ha' past six
I had her doin' tricks
Lay me down,
Roll me over,
Do it again
Croft stared at the mountainThe inviolate elephant brooding over the jungle and the paltry hills
It was pure and remoteIn the late afternoon sunlight it was velvet green and rock blue and the brown of light earth, made of another material than the fetid jungle before it
The old torment burned in him againA stream of wordless impulses beat in his throat and he had again the familiar and inexplicable tension the mountain always furnished him
He had failed, and it hurt him vitallyHis frustration was loose againHe would never have another opportunity to climb itAnd yet he was wondering if he gucci men wallet could have succeededOnce more he was feeling the anxiety and terror the mountain had roused on the rock stairwayIf he had gone alone, the fatigue of the other men would not have slowed him but he would not have had their company, and he realized suddenly that he could not have gone without themThe empty hills would have eroded any man's courage
Ha' past seven
She thought she was in heaven
In a few hours they would be back, pitching their pup tents in the darkness, getting a canteen cup of hot coffee, perhapsAnd tomorrow the endless routine of harsh eventless days would begin once moreAlready the patrol was unfamiliar, unbelievable, and yet the bivouac before them also was unrealIn transit everything in the Army was unrealThey sang to make a little noiseroll me over
And do it again
Croft kept d
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