"I was a Red Cross nurse assigned at the RC center in Nha Trang in 1967 when a young soldier sat down next to me. I was expecting a pleasant talk about home and what it was like to be in Vietnam. Instead, he pulled out a handful of photographs to show me and he said. ‘Look here.'
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He pulled a stack of Polaroid pictures out of his cargo pocket. He laid the pictures down in front of me one by one. The first showed a dead Vietnamese with an Ace of Spades stuck in his mouth. I was completely unprepared to see this.
He continued laying them down, one next to another. The next showed a group of dead Vietnamese with the Ace of Spades stuck in their mouths. The next showed the Ace of Spades apparently stuck into the man’s chest with some kind of stick. The last showed the Ace of Spades nailed into a man’s forehead.
He seemed to have the pictures in some sort of order of brutality. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
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He offered to let me pick and keep one picture but I declined. He seemed relieved like if I would have broken up his collection. Then he handed me a sewn patch depicting an Ace of Spades that I did accept." #datingtips #hobbies #zerofoxtrot #stayzero