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As Calvin spoke, I reminded ht of Shannie's eulogy She nailed it

Calvin continued, "Icould have been the death for the lot of us I' as those days in the Wadi, not even e got into combat No, the Wadi orse, odda we could do about it Everyone knew if the Iraqi's ca the heat Mitchell, he just felt it a little hotter He cracked first"

"And poor fucking Lee, he did the best he could do He did too good, you knohat I'ood"

"What do you mean?" Shannie asked

"If he didn't care as much as he did, he wouldn't have done what he did I mean, he didn't have to do it But he told me, he said, Calvin, I'odda an eye on Mitchell Hell, he told before it all came down that he had an eye on Mitchell 'Cept you see, I didn't pay him all that s, you knohat I'? Imy boy's asses if the Iraqis came down the Wadi"

Calvin paused; a painful smile resided on his face In the distance a police car's siren wailed "And then our boh they was miles away, their explosions rolled down the wadi It eet ? For that minute or so, I never was so relieved I knew, I felt it inWe was out of the shit"

Calvin wiped the sweat off his forehead "Then I heard a shout, and then a loud explosion You see, when our bo? He goes and jumps out of his foxhole and beelines it for the Kuwait border, one-man invasion style That's what I hear anyhow What happened next I know, 'cause I saw it in les