Creative Writing: Instant
Beginning of paper
I'll always remember Instant. That was the nickname the men had tacked onto
the muscled giant that wielded the M60 in my unit. "Instant" was short for
"Instant Death." And I'll always remember the first time I saw Instant in
action.
I was a new Lieutenant assigned to Vietnam. Back then, the Arm ....
Middle of paper
.... Soon, we circled the landing zone. The LZ looked cold. There's only one way
to find out if it is really cold, I thought as I double checked my M16. If no
one zapped us when we entered, it was cold. If they did, it wasn't.
"Lock and load," I yelled.
The helicopter circled low and slowed down until it almost hovered four feet
from the ground. The door gunner mashed the spade grips on his .30 caliber M60
machine gun. The gun spewed bullets over the field below us.
It was time to jump of ....
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