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Submitted to Contest #325
Our foxhole was dug in the residential perimeter of the area we were supposed to protect. The spot was chosen in a small patch of forest between four local homes. Apparently, there had been some civil unrest in the recent past. My fellow private, Robert Gonzalez and I, spent the past two months of this incredibly hot summer keeping watch to look out for any local guerillas. In the blazing summer heat, we had spent a lot of time there and had confronted the enemy only a handful of times. We had killed a few of them and came out with only mino...
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