My Mother’s Prayer
YOU PARENTS PLEASE, PLEASE READ THIS IN ITS ENTIRETY.My unit was stationed on one corner of what was called ‘Leatherneck Square’ just below the DMZ in South Vietnam. It was night, I was sitting on a sandbag and I was looking around in the darkness when I was suddenly caught in the blazing hot hands that crushed me, then instantaneously they jerked apart and it felt like I exploded. The next thing I remember I was on my back in a hole with two or three of my fellow Marines [...]