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another bend in the stream bed—the noise sounded like something was crashing thru the underbrush and making ‘animal like’ sounds—and it was coming in my direction. I pulled my weapon from my holster—slipped into the underbrush and hid behind some rocks. A couple of minutes later I saw a huge, orange creature ( an orangutang ), coming down the stream bed—he was bigger than me and looked like ‘bigfoot’—he was angry about something—he was picking up logs , rocks and tree limbs and banging them against the rocks and making loud animal sounds! He stopped up ahead about fifty yards away from me—held his head up as if he was sniffing the air and looked in my direction. I couldn’t tell whether or not he saw me but I’m pretty sure he ‘smelled’ me! I was hoping I wouldn’t have to shoot him but ready to do that if I was attacked. Fortunately, he turned and scurried into the underbrush on the other side of the stream bed. I waited a few min. and moved back down the stream bed back to my platoon.
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