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Weekly Contest #206
The younger soldier dug the heel of his boot back and forth in the hot sand. He could get half of his boot buried before he decided he didn’t want any more sand in his socks than was already there. He pulled up on his foot, watched the sand ease back into the size eleven hole, and then started digging again. He had arrived in country less than a week before, so he was in no way acclimated. Not to the heat, not to the sounds or smells, and not to that foreign feeling in his stomach. The training at Fort Benning, Ga a few months earlier w...
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