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Personal Narrative: My First Vietnam War

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As I drove downtown to visit Carol and Lee, I looked for a back way back in which would mean that I wouldn’t be seen. I wandered around for a while, eventually finding their house situated a few hundred yards from a McDonald on Bragg Boulevard and saw an alleyway behind the restaurant. I went to McDonald, where I waited a while before exiting into the back alley to see if I was followed. When I was convinced that it was all clear, I leaped over the fence into Carol’s backyard and up to the door. The look on Carol’s face when I walked in to her house was a treat. She asked what I had been up to. I filled her in on all of the gory details and told her that I was leaving Fayetteville and heading to California. We talked for an hour or so; the …show more content…

I informed Jeff that I may be doing some business with the Californians and Scott in Florida, but had not worked out the details yet. Jeff said he had planned to retire from the business and go back to school before wishing me luck. I told him that I was tying up my loose ends, and staying off Hay St. since it was a hotbed of narcotics, prostitution, gun running, and cops. Basically, I was turning my back on my life for the last couple of years, we both laughed. I returned to Hope Mills by a surreptitious route so as not to be followed by narcs. I still could not get over the fact that Jimmy was an SBI undercover agent and that I had done so many deals with him. I would be much more careful in the future and trust only a select few. I’d learned the hard way on the streets and was not going to be caught out again. Arriving at Tom’s I saw that Jap and Alberta were already over I asked for Jenny, Jap said they had not seen her since this morning. To be fair, I was just as happy to drop some acid and listen to Led …show more content…

Life would have been different if Capt. C had been my CO the last couple of years. Going over to the barracks, I covered myself with the salve and lay on an open bunk for the rest of the day. After a few days, I began to feel better and started shedding like a snake, and learned my lesson well. Going out to see the gang, Bob, Willie, CA one last time, I told them of my plans and found out what they intended. They had not seen Barb or Bonnie they were nowhere to be found and had not been to the house for weeks. That was not surprising; they were free spirits and always traveling on the USO tour circuit so there was a chance that we might never see them again. I will always be grateful to how they came up trumps for me in my hour of need, though. We fired up some hash, snorted some coke and reminisced about our adventures and wondered where Scott had ended up in Florida. We said our goodbyes and exchanged phone numbers; I asked for their parent’s addresses figuring they would be a more stable location and that they were always likely to know where their kids

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