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XIV Attrition from the Inside
Seige felt relieved for the break but mentally ques- tioned the breakup of the task force. From day one, being back in class seemed to be for no particular purpose he thought. He tried unsuccessfully to discover the good in this experience and could find none. During a break, his thoughts went back to Viet- nam with the November Rangers. “The first day he ever killed a woman came back to haunt him.
“Moving toward a major enemy supply route, his patrol had orders to kill anything in the area they could handle. And mov- ing through the bush all day brought them to a rice paddy laden open area as they were losing light. Team members fanned out and attempted to reach the vegetation on the far side before dusk. There was an almost simultaneous sigh of relief from the patrol as they neared the trees. In the murky dusk, they observed three females still diligently working in the rice paddies. As the patrol passed, the three women stood together. All eyes were riveted on the center goddess whose cave-black hair flowed over her body when she removed her hat. The entire patrol stopped, mesmer- ized by her curvaceous perfection dwelling so far from humanity. Her slight smile only made the team’s position more precarious. Danger approached with the rapid onset of darkness, but the patrol was frozen like deer in the light. A blink from her eyes broke the spell.
“Let’s go men. Move out,” Seige recalled saying. We all tried to act as if our fantasy world had disappeared snapping us back