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Page 161
... Marine Corps had failed ever since to shift these seven stone warriors in rubber tyre sandals out of their fortress . The Americans had to fight from house to house and they were trained , inasmuch as they had been trained at all , to ...
... Marine Corps had failed ever since to shift these seven stone warriors in rubber tyre sandals out of their fortress . The Americans had to fight from house to house and they were trained , inasmuch as they had been trained at all , to ...
Page 165
... marines called the baguettes ' Gook bread ' and stuck to plastic Swiss Roll from the C - rations . It was the best meal for three weeks . Afterwards I gave the mayor's aunt , who had a broken shoulder , my last morphine shot , which I ...
... marines called the baguettes ' Gook bread ' and stuck to plastic Swiss Roll from the C - rations . It was the best meal for three weeks . Afterwards I gave the mayor's aunt , who had a broken shoulder , my last morphine shot , which I ...
Page 176
... marines there kept saying , ' mind - blowing ' . They were not only ahead of the hippies with this expression , but they were using it with unhippie - like precision . Just as someone on a bad acid trip may start wondering whether his ...
... marines there kept saying , ' mind - blowing ' . They were not only ahead of the hippies with this expression , but they were using it with unhippie - like precision . Just as someone on a bad acid trip may start wondering whether his ...
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